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10 Sept 1814 | |||
Logic or Ethics | |||
Ch Object | |||
10 Virtue what | |||
From what is above, if to the word virtue how any may | |||
intelligible meaning be annexed the following position observations corollaries | |||
may in the way of corollaries be deduced | |||
[That] The existence of virtue depends upon the | |||
existence of pain and pleasure Virtue for its very existence | |||
depends upon pain and pleasure | |||
It is only in proportion as it is productive of | |||
pleasure or preventive of pain is production of | |||
pleasure that it is promotion of well-being, possessed | |||
of any positive value, or entitled to any regard. | |||
[That] its dependence on pleasure is altogether | |||
as clear and necessary as its any dependence it has it has on pain | |||
That in respect of what whatever tendency it has to | |||
promote in any to any shape and to any amount pleasure it is of exactly the same value | |||
and entitled to the same regard as in respect | |||
of whatsoever equal in equally strong and efficient tendency it has to prevent avoid | |||
a quantity of pain in any shape in to an amount | |||
corresponding and equivalent equal in value to that such pleasure | |||
[That whatsoever may as above be predicated | |||
of Virtue, the <gap/> of it may with equal truth be | |||
predicated of vice] | |||
Quere: <gap/> | |||
That as to vice, this too is and in the same | |||
proportion as Virtue dependent for its very existence upon | |||
pain and pleasure | |||
That it is only in proportion as it is productive of | |||
pain or preventive of pleasure that it is promotive | |||
of ill-being, or a felt object of aversion | |||
That of this vice too the dependence on pain pleasure is altogether | |||
as necessary as any dependence it has on pain. | |||
10 Sept 1814 Logic or Ethics Ch Object 10 Virtue what
From what is above, if to the word virtue how any may intelligible meaning be annexed the following position observations corollaries may in the way of corollaries be deduced
[That] The existence of virtue depends upon the existence of pain and pleasure Virtue for its very existence depends upon pain and pleasure
It is only in proportion as it is productive of pleasure or preventive of pain is production of pleasure that it is promotion of well-being, possessed of any positive value, or entitled to any regard.
[That] its dependence on pleasure is altogether as clear and necessary as its any dependence it has it has on pain
That in respect of what whatever tendency it has to promote in any to any shape and to any amount pleasure it is of exactly the same value and entitled to the same regard as in respect of whatsoever equal in equally strong and efficient tendency it has to prevent avoid a quantity of pain in any shape in to an amount corresponding and equivalent equal in value to that such pleasure
[That whatsoever may as above be predicated of Virtue, the of it may with equal truth be predicated of vice] Quere:
That as to vice, this too is and in the same proportion as Virtue dependent for its very existence upon pain and pleasure
That it is only in proportion as it is productive of pain or preventive of pleasure that it is promotive of ill-being, or a felt object of aversion
That of this vice too the dependence on pain pleasure is altogether as necessary as any dependence it has on pain.
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