 ... is so much ease from all pain, and so much present pleasure, as without which any one cannot be content. Now, because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the operation of certain objects either on our minds or our bodies, and in different degrees,...  Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals - Page 88by Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1822 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 476 pages
...ease from all pain, and so much present pleasure, as without which any one cannot be content. Now, because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the...call 'evil'; for no other reason but for its aptness to produce pleasure and pain in us, wherein consists our happiness and misery. Farther though what... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 424 pages
...ease from all pain, and so much present pleasure, as without which any one cannot be content. Now, because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the...call " evil;" for no other reason but for its aptness to produce pleasure and pain in us, wherein consists our happiness and misery. Farther though what... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 pages
...ease from all pain, and so much present pleasure, as without which any one cannot be content. Now, because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the..." evil ;" for no other reason but for its aptness to produce pleasure and pain in us, wherein consists our happiness and misery. Farther though what... | |
 | Frank Hugh Foster - 1907 - 606 pages
...which, he says, "must not be confounded." But, now, what moves desire? Locke replies, "Happiness." "What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us, is that we call good." But a good must be so situated as to stir desire, or it will never influence action. An absent good,... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 pages
...ease from all pain, and so much present pleasure, as without which any one cannot be content. Now, because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the...call "evil;" for no other reason but for its aptness to produce pleasure and pain in us, wherein consists our happiness and misery. Farther, though what... | |
 | Jay William Hudson - 1911 - 124 pages
...be taken in the sense of happiness ; for, says Locke, "What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us that we call good, and what is apt to produce pain in us we call evil" (§ 43). The will, then, is moved by a desire for happiness, this desire accompanying or identical... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1911 - 130 pages
...be taken in the sense of happiness; for, says Locke, "What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us that we call good, and what is apt to produce pain in us we call evil" (§ 43). The will, then, is moved by a desire for happiness, this desire accompanying or identical... | |
 | Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - 184 pages
...good and evil are identical with pleasure and pain. The evidence for this lies simply in the fact that "What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is...call 'evil,' for no other reason but for its aptness to produce pleasure and pain in us, wherein consists our happiness and misery." l Nevertheless, we... | |
 | Sterling Power Lamprecht - 1918 - 186 pages
...of pleasures and pains directly or of their causes. A characteristic passage is the following: "Now, because pleasure and pain are produced in us by the...operation of certain objects, either on our minds or on our bodies, and in different degrees, therefore, what has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - 438 pages
...their rise in the mind from thought, others in the body from certain modifications of motion. [42.] What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is that...call evil ; for no other reason but for its aptness to produce pleasure and pain in us, wherein consists our happiness and misery. Farther, though what... | |
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