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.
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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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    ticians, lawyers, writers on controversial divinity, satirists and literary censors. 6. Causes of the comparative numbers of censorial and neutral names of motives. Eulogistic appellatives, in some instances abundant, in others rare or wanting: so likewise, dyslogistic: in some instances Loth abundant: neutral appellatives, in most in- stances either rare or wanting:—such are among the observations which the contents of this Table may be apt to suggest. Of so re- markable a diversity, where (it may be asked) are v.e to look for the cause ?—Answer.—In the interest, which, on the several oc- casions, in their character of makers and employers of language, men have understood themselves to have, in propagating the per- suasion which, by the appellatives respectively in question has been endeavoured to be impressed.—Of this proposition, the proof will, it is supposed, be seen in the following paper, entitled OBSERVATIONS. N B. Where on this occasion appellatives are said to be wanting, understand single-worded ones. By combinations ot words, no as- signable object for which appellatives may not be found. (r) [Compound Pleasures exemplified] Example I. Pleasures of the bottle.—No. 1.—Component elements, commonly conjoined in this aggregate, are—1. Plea- sure of the palate-, viz. from the taste of the liquor.—2. Pleasure of exhilaration; viz. of what may be termed physical or pharmaceutic exhilaration -.—seat of it, the nervous system in general (No. 1.) : —3. Pleasure of sympathy or good will (No. 10.) : viz. as towards co-partakers, the compotators. Example II. Love, (the passion).—Component elements— 1. Sexual desire (No. 2.) : 2. Do. enhanced by particular beauty : 3. Desire of goodwill (No. 7 ) : viz. the goodwill of the person beloved ; including the indefinite train of services, of which it may be the imagined and expected source : 4. Goodwill itself; viz. to- wards that same person (No. 10 ) : or say sympathy : viz in con- templation of the qualities, intellectual or moral, ascribed to that same person, 8cc. &c. Example III. Love of justice.—Component elements— 1. In so far as it is to the individual in question, that, in the instance in question, the benefit of justice accrues, Desire of self-preservation (No. 13.) 2. Sympathy (No. 10.) for this or that o her indivi- dual, considered as being, on the occasion in question, or on other similar ones, liable to become a sufferer by the opposite injustice. 3. Sympathy (No. 10.) for the community at large, in respect of the interest, which it has in the maintenance of justice: i e. as being liable, in an indefinite extent, to become a sufferer by injustice. 4. Antipathy (No. 9 ) towards any other person or persons, con- sidered as profiting, or being in a way to profit, by the opposite injustice. 5. Antipathy (No. y.) towards any other person, who.