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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    (g) [Desires] Synonyms to the word desire. J. Wish (to, or for.) 2. Appetite (for.) 3. Craving (for.) 4. Longing (for, or after.) 5. Coveting (of or for.) 6. Liking (to, or tor.) 7. In- clination (to, or for.) 8. Regard (for.) 9. Affection (for.) 10. At- tachment (to.) 11. Love (of, or for.) 12. Hankering (after.) 13. Propensity (to, or towards). 14. Zeal (for, or in behaif of.) 15. Eagerness (for.) 10. Anxiety (for). (h) [Aversions] Synonyms to the word aversion. 1. Dislike (of, to, or for.) 2. Distaste (of, or for.) 3. Disgust (at.) 4. An- tipathy (against, or towards.) 5. Loathing (of.; (5. Abhorrence (of.) 7. Detestation (of.) 8. Execration. 9. Hatred (of, or towards). (i) [Wants] Synonyms to the word want are: l.Need (of.) 2. Demand (for.) 3. Exigency. 4. Necessity. (k) [Hopes'] Synonyms to the word hope. 1. Expectation (of, or from.) 2. Prospect (of, or from). (() [Fears] 1. Synonyms to the word fear. 1. Apprehension (of, for, or about.) 2. Dread (of.) 3. Terror. 4. Horror (of.) 5. Solicitude (for, or about, or concerning.) 6. Anxiety (for, or about.) 7. Suspicion (of, or about.) 2. As desire is to pleasure (and its expected causes), so is aversion to pain and its expected causes. So, as to hope and fear. 3. Want bears a common reference to pleasure and to pain ; sa- tisfied, it produces pleasure ; unsatisfied, pain ; though capabie of being overbalanced by the pleasure of hope, i. e. of expectation. 4. Need, demand, exigency, necessity may exist without any corresponding desire: so likewise want, in so far as it is synony- mous to these four appellatives, without being so to desire. Ex- posed to danger, a man has need of, and so far is in want of, all necessary means of safety : but, so long as he is ignorant of the danger, he has no desire of or for any of them. 5. As hope is to pleasure and exemption, so is fear to pain and loss. 6. Expectation and prospect are, without self-contradiction, ap- plicable to pain, to loss, and to their supposed causes : hope, not. (m) [Motives] 1. Synonyms to the word motive. 1. Induce- ment. 2. Incitement. 3. Incentive. 4. Spur. 5. Invitation. 6. So- licitation. 7. Allurement. 8. Enticement. 9. Temptation. 2. Motives to the will— motives to the understanding:—note well the difference. Motive to the will, a desire—the correspond- ing desire—operating in the character of a motive : motive to the understanding, any consideration,—the apparent tendency of which is to give increase to the efficiency of the desire, in the character of a motive to the will. Of the modifications of good and evil, capable of operating in the character of motives to the will, this Table presents a view:— of the corresponding considerations capable of operating, in sub- servience to these several motives to the will, in the character of