Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham

Chapter 10, Footnote #17
Dictates, what


When a man is supposed to be prompted by any motive to engage, or not to engage, in such or such an action, it may be of use, for the convenience of discourse, to speak of such motive as giving birth to an imaginary kind of law or dictate, injoining him to engage, or not to engage, in it.


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IPML Chapter 10 Section 4: Order of pre-eminence among motives