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31 Aug. 1814 §.2

Logic or Ethics II. Practical
Ch. 2 Mode of

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§.2. Improper mode

Moral more useful and better moral Between individual and individual moral advice more frequently proceeds from
self-interest than sympathy: has for its end the exercise of power, or promotion of interest
in some other shape.

§.2 Usual and Ordinary but improper mode of exercising the function

§.2 Hitherto Ordinary mode of prof exercising the function of practical morality
— its arrogance, absurdity and facility

Of the

Of the exercise Of exercising of the function of {the} practical moralist,
such then as above is the proper mode: is
it then the usual one?

Not so indeed but widely different: and in the
difference may be seen the cause of the inutility of
so greater part of the mass of labour thus employed expended in this field.

To set up Of his own authority to set up in the field
of moral action a throne: to seat himself on this throne
and from the throne to address himself to in the character
of an absolute and infallible monarch to the world crowd below — saying
shaling out with much composure gravity but with very little
reflection his commands and his prohibitions — such
is the course which in the assumed character of practical moralist
has been hitherto been may hitherto have been seen generally pursued.

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Date_1	1814-08-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	146	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
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