★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 47: | Line 47: | ||
ingredient in any <lb/> | ingredient in any <lb/> | ||
such efficient cause.</p> <pb/> | such efficient cause.</p> <pb/> | ||
ChIII Good & Evil. Progree. 2. Relation to pain and pleasure 4. 4. Evil. is pain, absence of pleasure, an elementary ingredient of an efficient cause of either. 5. 5.1. Pain. allone to do with this than with pleasure has legislation. Easier to avert pain , than ro create and confer peasure. Production of pleasure is best performed by each individual for himself constantly, occasionally for others. All the Legislation can dom is to put at his disposal the instruments. 6. 6. He can much more surely and easily produce it: and cases to a comparatively small extent excepted, it never fails to produces it's effect. 7. Nor can he in general produce pleasure, but by means of pain in still greater quantity: witness sinecure money produced by taxes. 8. 8. Principal occupatioin minimizing the pain produced in one another by individuals, in the course of each one's endeavour to produce pleasure to avert pain from himself. | |||
1826. July 3d
Law amendment? Penal Code
Ch. III Good & Evil. Progress.
S.2 Relates to pain & pleasure
1
1. On this as on every
other occasion in legislation,
maximization
of happiness the only
proper end in view:
to understand how, on
each occasion happiness
is affected by what
is done and suffered,
the progress of good and
evil, and in consequence
of any human act will
require to be delineated.
2.
2. Terms here employed
through deference
to custom are good
and evil, as if in each
stage of good, is produced
nothing but good,
nothing of evil could
in that stage be produced.
But in such
sent is the import of
each entangled with
that of the other that
on pain of contunual obscurity,
pain and pleasure,
which are not
susceptible of such
obscurity, must immediately
after be employed.
3.
3. Good what: 2. pleasure.
-abscence of pain:
3. Efficient cause of the
one or the other, or say
ingredient in any
such efficient cause.
---page break---
ChIII Good & Evil. Progree. 2. Relation to pain and pleasure 4. 4. Evil. is pain, absence of pleasure, an elementary ingredient of an efficient cause of either. 5. 5.1. Pain. allone to do with this than with pleasure has legislation. Easier to avert pain , than ro create and confer peasure. Production of pleasure is best performed by each individual for himself constantly, occasionally for others. All the Legislation can dom is to put at his disposal the instruments. 6. 6. He can much more surely and easily produce it: and cases to a comparatively small extent excepted, it never fails to produces it's effect. 7. Nor can he in general produce pleasure, but by means of pain in still greater quantity: witness sinecure money produced by taxes. 8. 8. Principal occupatioin minimizing the pain produced in one another by individuals, in the course of each one's endeavour to produce pleasure to avert pain from himself.
|
Identifier: | JB/549/243/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1826-07-03 |
|||
|
549 |
|||
|
243 |
Law Amendment |
||
|
001 |
|||
|
Rudiments sheet (brouillon) |
|||
|
John Flowerdew Colls |
|||
