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13 Sept 1814 §.1
Logic or Ethics Ch Fortitude
1 § Fortitude
§.1. Relation to primary Virtues
+ Reducible i.e. shewn to be subservient to one or more of them
if , then no virtue, is a virtue not worth having worthless one
Particular power of endurance
Ch. Fortitude — [its relation to the primary virtues]
§. 1 — Its relation to the primary virtues
Ch. or § Of Fortitude — how recotrable reducible + into prudence,
probity or beneficence.
In what sort On the occasion of action occasion by what means in what can is a man considered
as entitling himself to the praise of fortitude to the
discrimination of a man of courage? Answer — In so
far as On the occasion of his exposing placing himself voluntarily
in a situation in which he stands will would stand exposed to be
subjected to suffer evil in some shape or other, viz. and in
particular to extinction death, to considerable bodily pain, or to both or one
Add — to actual pain or danger
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Fortitude, what
In so far as he voluntarily and knowingly places
himself in any such situation, in proportion to the
magnitude of the danger i.e. what to him appears the magnitude
of the pain or the probability of the death — in that same
proportion is the quality of fortitude considered as belonging
to him.
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Measure of its degree
This exposure, for the ultimate good of human society is it desirable that it should be
made? — [the answer will depend] on these circumstances
will the answer, it is believed, be found to depend. By
such exposure will his own interest well-being — his own ultimate
interest — will that of such other persons whose
interests are in any respect at stake upon it be
upon the whole more likely to be served than deprived? Supposing the Suppose these two
interests to be incompatible? of which of which of
them is it desirable that it should give way? to which
of them is it desirable that the preference should be given, the
other being to the extent of such preference amount necessary for the purpose sacrificed:
3
Measure of its
merit — conducive
to self interest or
extra regarding do
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