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9 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

1 Theory

§ Probity

Probity what

§ 5 Probity how encreasable

or

Probity what?

17 or 1

Necessary that of self regarding interest the preponderance should generally have place, is it not that it should be maximized? -

Ans: No - but that it should be minimiz d. no fear of its being sufficient: unless < > - to minimize it is the slow work of cultivation - of moral art - and practice -

18. or 2

Q 18: Means of cultivation what? -

Ans - 1 Indication of < > advantages to personal interest from action according to social d o.

2. Creating d o. viz - by < > bestowed on social conduct

19 or 3.

Q 19: This then is giving to social interest personal for its support -

Ans - Yes, so far as the advantages indicated are put to personal interest: but if social d o. have place and influence

§ 5. Probity how encreasable

proportioned to that influence will be effect of any advantages to social interest as are thus indicated -

20 or 4

Q 20: Praise how operates it? -

Ans: By giving Prospect of esteem, good will, good offices, services of the praiser and others who think &c. feel as he does -

21. or 5

Q.21. Thus then by praise applied in support of social interest self regarding interest in one shape is made to < > d o. in another.

Ans. Yes - for the pleasure of reputation howsoever social the tendency of the corresponding motive is a self regarding pleasure.

22 or 6

Q.22: The language of praise by what causes is it producable? -

Ans: 1. By desire of giving support to social interest as above

§.5 Probity, how encreasable.

2: By that sympathy which in a cultivated state is produced by any extraordinary sacrifice of personal to social interest: esteem being heightened to admiration by pleasure of surprise -

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Q 23: Such being necessarily the general predominance of self regarding interest folly to trust to social to the exclusion of self regarding or the interest of every man -

Ans: yes -

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Q: 24: What? though he be a ruler?

Ans. Yes -

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Q 25: The highest in the scale of rulers?

A: Most of all -

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Q.26 - Why so? -

A: 1. Because by his situation in whose breast sympathy for the subject many is minimized -

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Q.27 - By what means else can this appropriate probity be most effectually secured -

Ans. By such means as increased the difficulty of sacrificing the universal to the self regarding interest -

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Q 28: What are those means?

Ans: Maximizing the number of sharers in supreme power so far as < > with the other elements of aptitude