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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
Identifiant : ark:/12148/bpt6k93974k
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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on the other, difpofing him not to engage in it. Now, any motive, the influence of which tends to difpofe him to engage in the action in queftion, may be termed an impelling motive any motive, thé influence of which tends to difpofe him not to engage in it, a. reftraining motive. But thefe appellations may of courfe be interchano-ed, according as the act Is of the pofitive kind, or the négative*. XLIV.
It has been fhewn, that there is no fort of motive but may give birthtoan'y fort of action. It follows, therefore, that there are no two motives but may corne to be oppofed to one another. Where the tendency ofthe a<3: Is bad, the moft common cafe is for it to have been didated by a motive either ofthe felf-regarding, or of the diffocial clafs. In fuch. cafe the motive of benevolence has commonly been acting, tho.ugh Inefîectually, in, the charader of a reftraining motive. XLV.
An example may be of ufe, to Ihew the variety of contending motives, by which a man may be acted upon at the fame time. Crillon,. a Catholic (at, a time when it was gènerally thought meritorious among Catholics to'extirpate ProteAants)~was ordered by his king, Charles IX. of France, to fall privately upon Coligny, a Proteftant, and affaffinate him his anfwer was, Excufe.me, Sire; but rilfight him with all my heart Hère then, were all the three forces above mentioned, including that of the political fancHon, acting upon him at once. By the political fancHon, or at leaft fo much of the force of it as fuch a mandate, from fuch a fovereign, iffued on fuch an occafion, might be fuppofed to carry with it, he was, enjoined to put Coligny to death in the way of aCafRnation: by the religious fancHon, that is, by the dilates of religious zeal, he was enjoined to put him to death in any way by the moral fandion, or in other words, by the dictâtes of honour, that is, of the love of reputation, he was permitted (which permiflion, when See ch. vu. [Avions] par. viii.
The idea of thé cafe here fuppofed is taken from an anecdote !n real hi~ory, but t&rie! from it in feveral particulars.