JB_113_001.xml

Title: [1822 April 25 Constitut. Code or Economy]

Description: 1822 April 25 Constitut. Code or Economy as to Office

Note a Note felicity chosen as having its origin in the

Latin language: the root of most of the European languages and the subject of

instruction to literary men whose language has not the Latin for its root. 20

April 1822 Omitt the exordium The greatest felicity principle. This belongs to

the Rationale. Form of the Articles, declarative or

imperative

felicity (a) Art. 1 The greatest happiness

principle(1) requires in the case every political /public/ functionary(2) /on

the part /instance/ of all persons in the employ of /employed by/ government/

the maximum(3) of aptitude(4) at the minimum of expence. Say maximize aptitude;

minimize expence Aptitude maximized;(5) expence minimized(6)

So in the case of all things so employed (The greatest

happiness principle.)

(1) For shortness instead of saying that principle which avers the greatest

happiness of the greatest possible number of the members of the community in

question in the present life to be the only proper ultimate object or end in

view of the system of government therein established

(2 (Public functionary) A public functionary is every person on whom obligations

of a special nature stand imposed, to be fulfilled for the benefit of the whole

community or any one or more of the sections which from any number of /the

several established/ [...?] are carved out in it

A public functionary is an individual who stands invested with any public office

or say with any public trust fides-commission

Here follows in terminis or by reference an analytical sketch of the several

public Offices established in the political state in question: distinguishing in

the first place those to which power and those to which no power is attached:

and in regard to power, power operating by coercion, and power operating by

remuneration.

(3) (Maximum) that is to say the greatest quantity possible.

(4) (Aptitude) that is to say appropriate aptitude, with relation to the function

in question.

Under Aptitude are comprehended 1. moral aptitude: 2. intellectual do: 3. active

do: under intellectual aptitude are comprehended 1 aptitude in respect of

knowledge: 2. do in respect of judgment.

(5) (Minimum) that is to say the smallest quantity possible.

JB_111_063.xml

Title: [1818 Aug. 25 Things as they are First]

Description: 1818 Aug. 25

Things as they are First lines &c.

§.1. Misrule Necessity

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5. In proportion as virtue in general, and in particular as the virtues of benevolence and beneficence are held in honour, self-regarding interest joins with sympathy in giving existence and strength to the /those two/ corresponding virtues of benevolence and beneficence. In so far as self regarding interest alone operates, beneficence has place without benevolence: but so intimate is the connection that it scarcely happen that the habit or an act of beneficence shall have place - but that the disposition of benevolence shall in a greater or less degree receive encrease along with it.

The value of the service rendered to each being the same The greater the number of the individuals to whom it has been rendered, knowingly and purposely rendered, the higher the degree in which the virtue of beneficence has been exercised: in other words the greater the extent to which it has been exercised.

6. On this or that occasion it /what/ may well have happened /examples have not been wanting/ of a man /is that a man/ who for the advancement of some public interest has made a sacrifice to a greater or less amount of his own self-regarding interest: who in short has exercised /practiced/ the virtue of beneficence at the expence of the self-regarding precedence. But reputation is an instrument /a ladder/ of power: and if then in conferring a benefit on men no matter to what extent, on his family, on his towns folks, on his nation, on mankind, a quantity of reputation of more value to him than the sacrifice he makes of personal /self-regarding/ interest in the ordinary shape, as what he has in view and aims at, a service to any amount may be rendered by him without the need of any sympathy of any feeling of the several kinds to give birth to it.

As in a civilized state of society for the most part love of reputation, and social sympathy acting upon an extensive scale, had to the same results, they are /were/ commonly, on the occasion where a beneficent action accompanied with self denial has had place, been acting in conjunction: as to the proportions in which in this case they have respectively had place, this is a matter scarce ever known to the man himself, and never to any others.

JB_160_433.xml

Title: [[clx. 433] 1822 July 17 Constitut]

Description: [clx. 433]

1822 July 17

Constitut. Code

Relation betwen opposition of interest, sinister interest, sinister sacrifice, corrupt interest, corruptive influence, corruptive sacrifice - corruptive institutions, and corrupt or corruptive practices

An institution is corruptive when in so far as without risk of punishment it enables a functionary and especially a /the/ chief functionary, to make for his own benefit, or for the benefit of another or others linked with him by a community of sinister interest the /a/ sinister sacrifice

Examples

Institution enabling a functionary /authorizing self-remuneration /enrichment/ on the part of functionary/ or set of functionaries to convert the matter of good to their own use in unlimited quantity at the expence of the rest of the community