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1829. June 9 + + R2 Original 2o Article on Utilitarianism. X Copied 6

History Epoch on Hume's Essays

As to pleasure and pain mention is made of them: indeed, as above observed but no otherwise, there in the same general way in which utility itself is mentioned: and as to pain exemption from which is at least as necessary to happiness as pleasures are, mention is made instead of correspondent mention, either no mention is made or next to none: nor of any such 16 Of pleasure no mention but in the general way in which utility is mentioned Of pain no mention or next to none and then in general terms, but of no such idea as that of giving a list of different sorts of each are any traces is any the least trace visible. Of then elementary component parts of every mass of good and evil, whether pure or mixt, no account being taken, — no criteria of right and wrong — no answers to the questions what ought to be done and what ought to be left undone is on any occasion endeavoured to be furnished by him. virtues Of particular virtues As to virtues and vices names in great abundance are scattered here and there, but no distinct idea of it for want of any intimation to the contrary they are all placed in the same level, as by the Stories of Horace is to be believed nor are any boundary lines — misdeeds (peccata) are in express terms 17 Of particular virtues names in abundance but all placed on the same level and undistinguished by which they might be distinguished from one another any where attempted to be drawn. They are ddistributed into classes: but by the classification given to them little if any assurance is given to the operation of determining in what different ways or proportions they are conducive to happiness.

18 None but vague generalities on the subject

19 So of reason & sentiment as the foundation of morals

20 On good & evil as on utility all he says is mere speculation

Scarce Visible scarce any when is any proportion, of a character none is than that for which the designation of what the term vague generalities has been changed by Mr Bentham has history of use to employ the appellation vague generalities any where to be found. As among his writing on on the field of law till of late years what that which what ought to be is seldom made a question, and, when it is, made q question is, without notice, confounded at every turn with the question what is, so in the field of morals in this work of David Hume. [+] In one of his [+] Employed as the table to one part of his had awkwardly derided hodge-podge are the words of the general principles of Morals and presently afterward which is the proper foundation and presently afterwards, after speaking of the foundation or general " of morals reason and and sentiment — but the which composition are immediately spoken of as the only foundation source would have been more appropriate) from which being a piece of generality work, no more mention made of, or they can have been derived: but the whole composition being a tissue of vague reference generalities, no reference is or so much as an allusion, to particular pains and pleasures: and, upon the whole, the question is left by him in the a state of confusion little different from if any thing less thick than that in which he found it I symbol

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Date_1	1829-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	16-20
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	404	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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