★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
PUNISHMENT it's END KEYMIS VINDICTIVE PRINCIPLE
"Upon certain actions hurtful to others the stamp of
impropriety & wrong is impressed in Character
to all, not excepting the delinquent." If it is hereby the
Author means, that certain actions are generally &
readily perceived to be hurtful to others it is true
& it is from conceiving perceiving or that our indignation judgment of his guilt is produced
if it be any thing more than a confused
and disapprobation.
When we can give any reason for it, that is the reason & no other.
---page break---
PUNISHMENT It's END
Resentment is a criticism of right & wrong & why? + because
it usually follows an action prejudicial to the Interest
of Society — but suppose it produced by an action not
mischievous? Is it then a criticism of right & wrong?
no surely — or else what else do we mean by an unjust
resentment
The treatment of a good man, that is of a man who has tuned his feelings in unison with the public interest, or rather it is the natural inconsistency of men & the impossibility of understanding? an adherence? to the he has taken up that saves him + v. Keymis Hist/ of the Criminal Law that would be to be always in the right, with that of public opinion or the yet <add> voices of religion, which is always to mean to be so the of such a man & , rises at the sight of : but --- I know that when a man is angry, he wishes to be thought to be in the right: but I should not have thought in cold blood of saying that he must be so. They all faulty or refer to some enough After which it Unless whenever a man is angry, fault appeared of all the facts for I will do it justice if he is in the right, resentment can never be a fit criticism/criterion to be to.
PUNISHMENT END. False - Vengeance - Keymis.
Identifier: | JB/096/167/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
096 |
punishment |
||
167 |
punishment end false vengeance keymis |
||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
2 |
||
recto |
|||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[partial initials]]] |
||
31171 |
|||