JB_084_076.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 76] 1821 Decr 25 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 76]

1821 Decr 25

Codification Proposal

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III Aptitude and <...>

Prejudice

Of the union of /between/ sinister interest with prejudice in both its sorts acting in the same sinister direction and inbred /general/ weakness suffering itself to be carried on in the same direction is composed what with reference to the right and proper path © the path that leads to the only legitimate end so often mentioned © may be termed the ”seductive force•: the forces whatsoever they are, the tendency of which is to keep the end /human/ conduct of the person in question on the /that same/ right and proper path, and thereby to oppose and counteract that same seductive force may be termed the corresponding guardian power or ”tutelary force•.

In The secuctive force is /may be seen/ in other words the force of the temptation which applies to the case: the ”temptation•, that is to say the inducement to take and pursue the ”wrong• the sinister path. in The guardian power the tutelary force is the opposing sanction: the inducement by which the individual /mind/ is urged to pursue and keep notwithstanding /in spite of/ the action of the seductive force, the right and proper path as above.

Taken by themselves /itself/, none of /no one of all/ these expressions would amount to any thing: but when their import is explained by their relation /relation/ to the all commanding and only legitimate end, they will be found not only of use but of indispensable use.

JB_084_074.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 74] 1821 Decr 25 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 74]

1821 Decr 25

Codification Proposal

?.5 Adm<...>n Universal

III. Aptitude and Inaptitude

In every /any/ political situation and for every sort of political work, such are the elements of appropriate aptitude. In every political situation appropriate aptitude finds itself encountered by the operation of various causes of relative inaptitude © causes the tendency of which is to diminish the degree of appropriate aptitude on the part of persons filling the situation in question or engaged in the work in question © diminishing it in one or more of its several shapes as above.

The following are the heads under one or other of which /Sinister interest, interest©begotten prejudice inbred intellectual weakness, authority©begotten prejudice © here in these heads, one or other of them/ /will/ the several causes of such relative inaptitude may it is believed be comprehended will it is believed be found /it is believed/ comprehendible:/./ namely 1: Sinister interest: 2. Interest©begotten prejudice: 3. Original /General/ intellectual weakness. 4. Authority©begotten prejudice

By sinister interest understand interest acting upon human /man's/ conduct in a direction opposite to that which leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

By right and proper interest understand

In the mental frame of man /it is in/ the will is the part to which the seductive force of sinister interest applies itself and operates /operates/: it is to the intellectual part that the several other causes of inaptitude, namely interest©begotten prejudice, inbred intellectual weakness, and authority©begotten prejudice more immediately apply themselves.

By prejudice, in so far as any clear idea is attached to it, is understood prepossession operating /acting/ in a sinister direction © in a direction opposite to the only right and proper direction /opinion so often mentioned/: by prepossession judgment already formed in relation to the matter in question whatever it be.

JB_807_027.xml

Title: [1821 Nov r 18 Jug Util 4]

Description: 1821 Nov r 18

Jug Util

4

§ All comprehensive sketch

4

This path or line of conduct or course of action by proceeding in to which more happiness may be enjoyed than by proceeding in any other call it for shortness the right

path: any other path, /or line of conduct or course of action/ a wrong path.

Note? Quere whether to insert.

/On this occasion/ Figurative as it can not be deemed to be, language /then/ equally figurative must be employed, or no language in any shape can be employed: for since all ideas have their origin in sense /in sense/ produced by matter, the nature of man furnishes not any means of designating unnatural objects without /but through/ the instrumentality of material ones.

An inducement is the eventual expectation of some pleasure or of exemption from some pain. An inducement to proceed in a certain path, line of conduct or course of action is the eventual expectation of enjoying some pleasure in the event of a man's proceeding on the occasion in question in the path, line or course in question, or of suffering some pain in the event of his not proceeding on that same occasion in that same path, line or course. By no other cause speaking in the character of a sort of inducement is human conduct ever influenced or capable of being influenced.

An inducement to proceed in what is regarded as a wrong path is commonly stiled a temptation: an inducement to disregard /to infringe/ or violate the corresponding directive rule.

An inducement to proceed in what is regarded as the wrong /right/ MS alt. in another hand. path, line or course is commonly stiled a sanction. But in this case the existence of a correspondent directive rule is supposed: and the effect or tendency of the sanction is to produce conformity to the course marked out by the directive rule.