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1819 June 11 Interests & Duties Prefat or Introd 3 § object Practice

1 By these two leading terms will be prudence and benevolence it will be seen how clear and it is hoped commodious a plan of division and distribution will be afforded for the whole of the matter of the practical part of this work, and to this purpose nothing more will require to be added, than a distinction of which the number ranged under the head of prudence, and thence a division of the virtue of prudence into his branches or species.

In one one class of cases will be seen in which the happiness of no other person is at any way in any immediate way at stake otherwise than the person himself when considered as applied to this class of cases, prudence will be made to take receive the name of Purely self-regarding prudence: the interest of others is not an occasion to be considered as other persons being so circumstanced as that their interest is at stake upon what is done is not done.

Dictates of purely self-regarding prudence will therefore constitute the title of the matter combined in the first division of this practical part.

When the happiness of others as well as his own is at stake upon the conduct he is about to pursue, mans own happiness it has already been observed will be the sole immediate and ultimate as well s immediate object of his solicited case, that of others no further than in so far as his own happiness is affected in virtue of the way in which the happiness of others is affected by his conduct. But whensoever the happiness of others is affected by the conduct a man pursues, his own happiness it will be shewn will in some way or other be affected by the manner in which theirs theirs is affected by it.

Identifier: | JB/014/234/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-10
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field	interests and duties
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	4997
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