JB_036_005_001.xml

Title: [1821. April 26. Constit. Cod. First]

Description: 1821. April 26.

Constit. Cod. First Lines

(2.)

Constitutional

Finance

5

1. Moral aptitude

to confess or disposition

to promote greatest happiness

Moral inaptitude, or

disposition to promote

personal and thus

particular happiness

at the expense of

general.

1. As to appropriate moral aptitude. If, in the breast

of the individual in question, instead of appropriate aptitude in this

shape, the opposite inaptitude have place be found, [be the degree of appropriate

intellectual aptitude and active talent ever so great,] the result will be so it is that,

by any extraordinary degree of appropriate intellectual aptitude and

appropriate active talent, the aggregate quantity of appropriate aptitude,

so far from being augmented, will be diminished. Appropriate

moral aptitude consists, on this occasion, in the disposition to promote,

to the utmost, the greatest happiness of the greatest number: the inaptitude,

correspondent and opposite to this branch of appropriate aptitude,

is the disposition to promote the particular interest happiness of the

individual in question and his particular connections, at the

expence, and by the sacrifice, of a portion, to any amount larger,

of that other and more extensive interest and happiness. [But, the greater

the degree of appropriate intellectual aptitude and correspondent

active talent the individual possesses, the greater is the degree of

facility he will possess with respect to the carrying into effect

that disposition of his which, by the supposition, has place: viz.

the disposition to make sacrifice of the greatest good

of the greatest number to his own private interests according to the

conception that happens to be entertained by him in relation to

it.

The higher a man's place is in the scale of external felicity,

the lower, not the higher, will naturally, not to say necessarily,

be his place in the scale of appropriate moral aptitude as here

explained.

1. Sympathy

JB_084_078.xml

Title: [ÁÁ[lxxxiv. 78] 1821 Decr 25]

Description: ÁÁ[lxxxiv. 78]

1821 Decr 25

Codification Proposal

?.5. Admission Universal.

Members Unapt

III. Aptitude and Inaptitude

By this relation we are led to a consideration of prime importance /cardinal moment/. In the order of importance moral aptitude stands before intellectual: each being understood in all degrees in any of which it is likely to have place. In so far as moral aptitude is wanting /deficient/, by intellectual aptitude, and active talent, both or either in proportion to the degree in which it is present, appropriate aptitude taken in the aggregate will, instead of being encreased, be diminished. In proportion as appropriate moral aptitude is deficient, the disposition of the man and the tendency of his endeavours will be to make sacrifice of the universal interest © the greatest happiness of the greatest number to his own particular and sinister interest: to that part of his own happiness which he purchases or thinks to purchase at the expence of the other members of the community /his fellow Citizens/.

The gradations to which and to which alone this observation can be applied with truth, are those which in the political situations in question are likely to be exemplified. Opposite to appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent stand degrees of inaptitude, by the existence /operation/ of which would have for its consequence a greater defalcation from the mass of aggregate mass of appropriate aptitude taken in the aggregate than could be made from the most compleat absence of appropriate moral aptitude. By the mere case of ministering to his own happiness a man possessed of a certain degree of intellectual aptitude and active talent would be led to make better provision for the happiness of his fellow citizens than would or could be made by a man in whose instance /whom/ intellectual aptitude or active talent were to a certain degree deficient, although at the same time endowed with the highest conceivable degree of appropriate moral aptitude.

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Title: [[036-122v] 1821 May 14 Codification]

Description: [036-122v]

1821 May 14

Codification Offer

'.4. Draughtsman single

First then as to absolute aptitude as just explained. On the part of the draught, absolute aptitude will be as the relative aptitude of the workman or workmen by whom it is composed. As in other political situations, so in this, appropriate aptitude divides itself into three branches: appropriate moral aptitude, appropriate intellectual aptitude, and appropriate active talent: and in the case of intellectual aptitude appropriate knowledge and appropriate judgement may require to be distinguished.

As to appropriate moral aptitude, in the present case it consists in neither more nor less than the disposition, so it be the effectual disposition, to take from first to last for the object pursued in and by the work, the all-comprehensive and only justifiable end so often mentioned.

It is this which in the order of importance and thence of regard claims the first place: for wherever /in so far as/ in this shape aptitude is deficient the work may, instead of coming near to that end, be found to have been made to diverge from it but the further, by any extraordinary degree of appropriate aptitude in those other shapes. If so it be that, has among its objects, the formation of some particular interest - and this at the expence and by the sacrifice of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, the more consummate the aptitude of the workman in respect of intellectual power and active talent in relation to that end, the more extreme will be that sacrifice.