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20 May 1811 + ' 2 2 1 Conclusion
20 May 1811 + '

2 2 1 Conclusion

Fallacies Ch | | Causes of these fallacies

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2.1 Sinister interest

2. This cause the root of all the others.

4. Private personal included in every instance to be expected to be predominant.

5. From private interest is[?] not always pursued because 1. interest of moral is preferred.

6. 2. True interest is not always [...?]compleatly apprehended to lasting?

7. But in general private interest where opposed to public is better

Cause to Sinister interest

' 2. Sinister interest

Deception being the end in view /object aimed at/, or at least the more or less probable result, sinister is an adjunct /an epithet/ which may will be given /with/ with indisputable propriety may be attached to interest in any shape considered as operating towards that end. (| |)

Note

1. Like bad, Sinister is here employed for the purpose of reprobation bad is the adjunct most commonly employed /though sinister also is sometimes/ for that purpose: when interest is the name of given to the subject or object, sinister is the name /only one of the two names that is/ given to the adjunct. Sometimes we hear of sinister motives we hear sometimes: of bad interests never.

2 A motive is nothing more than /in the view of an interest/ an interest considered as operating towards a particular end

3 A motive being in every instance some good, that is the eventual prospect of some good - of some pleasure or pleasures or security against some pain or pleasure

Considered in itself there exists not any one species of motive that can with propriety be termed a bad motive

4 In so far as any motive can with propriety be termed bad, it is only in respect /consideration of the tendency it has or is supposed to have to give birth to some evil as above explained - to give birth /existence/ to some bad effect

5. As to every species of good corresponds a species of motive so to every species of good /in the most extensive sense of the term interest/ and every species of motive corresponds a species of interest - interest existing (the phrase is) in such or such a shape.
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