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1829. June 6. H 1 Copy.
Article on Utilitarianism.
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43.
Virtue, vice, justice,
injustice intelligible only
when referred to one of
these three principles: --
1 Greatt. happss.
2. Asceticism.
3. Ipsedixitism.
these
3 principles already
given Ipsedixitism
pursued by disciples
of Pythagoras.
Virtue & vice, justice & injustice — words all of them
universally employed spoken & written in discourse not altogether so
universally understood. No otherwise than by reference mode, to
be made of them or any one of them. Never has any one of them have any been
employed but reference expressed or implied has been made
by it to one or other of three principles of say standards of
right & wrong, namely 1. the greatt. happss. prine., 2. the prince. of asceticism, whh. is the direct opposite to it, or a
3rd whh. may be denominated the prince. of ipsedixitism
or the ipse dixit principle. Of the greatest happiness
principle sufficient explanation has it is hoped
been given: so likewise of its opposite the principle
of asceticism, for it is in the nature
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