23 Aug. 1814

Logic

Ch. Paraphrasis &c.

'.2. Exemplification

Obligation &c.

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The several distinguishable sources from any or all of which the pain and pleasure constitutive of the obligation in question, may be expected to be received, viz. the several sanctions, distinguished by the names of the physical sanction, the popular, or moral, sanction, the political (including the legal) sanction, and the religious sanction; - these particulars belong to another part of the field, and have received explanation in another place.

* To that other place it also belongs to bring to view the causes by which the attention and perception of mankind have, to so great an extent, been kept averted from the only true and intelligible source of obligation - from the only true and intelligible explanation of its nature, as thus indicated.

From /On/ the exposition thus given of the term obligation, may be built those other expositions, of which it will form the basis, viz., of rights, quasi rights or advantages analagous to rights, and their respective modifications, as well as of the several modifications of which the fictitious entity obligation is itself susceptible.

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