A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible: together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them: and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designated: to which are added explanatory notes and observations ... / By Jeremy Bentham, Esq.

  • Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible: together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them: and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designated: to which are added explanatory notes and observations ... / By Jeremy Bentham, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an act of enmity at large, exercised without any such war- rant,—the action may perhaps, still, by the agent in question, or even, in his behalf, by a friend, be termed an act of jus- tice, viz. of that justice, which is exercised by the infliction of suffering, on a person, to whom, with or without sufficient ground, misconduct in some shape or other has been imputed. Of these six species of desires and motives, #>y the ope- ration of which so large a portion of the business of human life is carried on, it is not very often that any one will, either by the man himself, or even by any other person, in so far as such other person speaks in the character of his friend, be recognised in quality of so much as a cooperating cause, much less as the sole cause, of the effect which, by the conjunct, or perhaps sole operation of it, has been pro- duced. These desires and motives may accordingly be con- sidered as the unseemly parts of the human mind. Of the sort of fig-leaves, commonly employed for the covering of them, specimens have now been given, as above. Printed by It. and A. TayUjr, Shue Lane, London.