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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    CONTENTS. 1. Explanations of the Table of the Springs of Action 1 2. Observations on the Table of the Springs of Action. § I. Pleasures and Pains the basis of all the other entities : these the only real ones ; those, fictitious 1,3 § II. No Act, properly speaking, disinterested 15 § III. Appellatives eulogistic, dyslogistic and neutral— Cause of their comparative penury and abundance, as ap- plied to Springs of Action 16 § TV. Good and Bad—attributives, applied to species of Motives : impropriety of the application—its causes and effects „ 21 § V. Proper subjects, of the attributives good and lad, are consequences, intentions, acts, habits, dispositions, incli- nations, and propensities ; so of the attributives virtuous and vitious, except consequences : how as to interests and desires 26 § VI. Causes of misjudgement and misconduct—intellec- tual weakness, indigenous and adoptive—sinister interest, and interest-begotten prejudice— 27 § VII. Simultaneously operating motives—co-operating, conflicting, or both 28 § VIII. Substitution of Motives. Acts produced by one motive, commonly ascribed to another.—Causes of this misrepresentation 29