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Deontology - Private 1. Motives by : reform 2. Occasions - 1. Beneficence without any sacrifice of self-regarding which 2. without any equal sacrifice 3. applied to the occasion

Part II

Beneficence and Benevolence

Ch.1

of Beneficence and Benevolence with Ref. Prudence

Beneficence is subservient to prudence, self regarding prudence, in 2 cases. 1st. Where it can be exercised without any sacrifice of self regarding interest; to 2 where it can be exercised without any sacrifice byt wgar us outweighed by superior

In both cases, the motives by which beneficence is recommended may be as follows -

1st motives belonging to the retributive sanctions:chance of reward at the hands of the benefitted - of this chance the value will be the greater according as in perfect of the power of rewarding the relation of the party benefitted to the party benefitting is of , equal or superior.

In this respect no human being is to such a inferior as that the chance of receiving at his hands remunerative retribution should be equal to 0.

Illustrative of this position is the well known fable of the lion and the noble

"nd motives belonging to the moral or popular sanction

This supposes the fact and circumstances of the benefit known. The value of the reward will in this case be the ratio of 1st the degree of supposed mentioned; belonging to the exercise of the virtue in the case in question; 2nd the number and influentiability of the persons to whom in the characters of judges of the judicatory of the popular sanctions the knowledge of the fact here

For illustration may be employed the story of the preconivation of the miraculous power of Jesus by the sick and infirm who had been healed by him

Identifier: | JB/015/087/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1819-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles	part ii / beneficence and benevolence / ch. 1 / connection of beneficence and benevolence with prudence
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5303
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