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1828 June 29
Deontology Private Hume's Virtues

If as believed, Virtue is not the genus generalissimum
employed by Hume the circumstance that
many his qualities many of them, do not properly
come under that denomination reflects no imputation
upon his discernment.

Virtue at any rate in the useful acceptation
of it denotes a factitious quality in contradistinction
to a natural one .. I say useful, for in as far as
it comes of its own accord, no attention, or regard
paid to it is either needful or useful

In so far as factitious it is the result of an exercise of the will, of
attention fixt upon the subject — and having an end in
view. In the first instance, requiring a sacrifice of present
to future contingent good, it requires and is accompanied
with self-denial: whats supposes a degree more or less
of uneasiness: but as practice grows into a habit the
uneasiness grows less and less, and in many instances
will vanish altogether: as in the case of positive effective
benevolence.

Identifier: | JB/014/297/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1828-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	297	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	5060
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