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Titre : An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation : printed in the year 1780 and now first published / by Jeremy Bentham,...

Auteur : Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832). Auteur du texte

Éditeur : T. Payne (London)

Date d'édition : 1789

Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30085224s

Type : monographie imprimée

Langue : anglais

Format : 9-CCCXXXV p. ; in-4

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Droits : Public domain

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Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Droit, économie, politique, F-17858

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Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007

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undiiUnguifhably into the pains derived from the famé fource it may alfo be ftiled, in fome cafes, the fear of difhonour, the fear of difgrace, the fear of infamy, the fear of ignominy, or the fear of fhame. r. You have received an affront from a man according to the cuftom of the country, in order,. on the one hand, to fave yourfelf from the fhame of being thought to bear it patiendy on the other hand, to obtain tlie reputation of courage, you challenge him to fight with A man's bearing an affront patient!y, that is, without taking this method of dôing what is called wiping it off, is thought to import one or other of two things either that he does not poffefs that fenfibilicy tc~ the pleafures and pains of the moral fan~iott, which, in order to render himfelf a reipe&aMe member of fociety, a man ought ta poffefs: or, that he does not poSefs courage enough to ffake his life for the chance of gratifying tnat refèntment which a proper (enië of-the value of thofe pleafures and thofe pains it is thought would not fail' toinfpire. True it is, that there are divers other motives, by any of which the fame conduct might equally be produced: the motives correfponding to. the religious fancHon, and the motives that come under the head of benevolence. Piety towards God, the practice in queUion being generally looked upon as répugnant to thé dictâtes of the religious fancUon fympathy for your antagonift himfelf, whofe life would be put to hazard at the fame time with your own fympathy for his connections the perfons who are dependent on nim in thé way of fupport, or conne&ed with him in the way of fympathy fympathy for your own connections and even fympathy for the public, in cafes where the man is fuch that the public appears to hâve a material intereft in his life. But in comparifon with the love of life, the influence of the religious ianction is known to be in general but weak: efpecially among people of thofe claHes who are here in queAion a fhre proof of which is the prevalence of this very cuftom. Where it is fo Urong as to preponderate, itis tbrare, that, perhaps, it gives a man a place in the calendar and, at any rate, exalts him to the rank of martyr. Moreover, the inftances in which either private benevolence or public <pirit predominate over the love of life, will alfo naturally be but rare and, owing to the general propenfity to detraetion, it will alfo be much rarer for them to be thought to do &. Now, when three or more motives, any one of them capable of producing a given mode ofconduct, apply at once, that which appears to be the moft powerfu), M that whicttwill of courfe be deemed to have actuaDy done the Mo/? and, as the bulk of mankind. on this as on.other occafions, are difpofed to decide peremptory upon fuperficial eftimates,, it will generaUy be looked.upon as having done the whole.

The confequence is, that when a man of a certain rank forbears to take this chance of revenging an aSront, his conduct will, by moft people, be imputed to the love of life which, when it predominates over the love of reputation, is, by a not unfaiutary~ ttSbciation of ideas, itigmatized with the reproachful name of cowardice. Ses Chap. vi. [PIeaiures and Pains.] par. xxiv. note.