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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    TABLE OF THE SPRINGS OF ACTION. I. EXPLANATIONS. (a) [Springs of action] 1. Under this denomination, those ob- jects and considerations alone are included in this Table, which, in their operation on the will, act as it were in the way of immediate contact. Concerning those which act on the will no otherwise than through the understanding, see Note (m) on the word Motives. 2 The words here employed as leading terms, are names of so many psychological entities, mostly fictitious, framed by necessity for the purpose of discourse. Add, and even of thought: for, without corresponding words to clothe them in, ideas could no more be fixed, or so much as fashioned, than communicated. 3. By habit, wherever a man sees a name, he is led to figure to himself a corresponding object, of the reality of which the name is accepted by him, as it were of course, in the character of a cer- tificate. From this delusion, endless is the confusion, the error, the dissension, the hostility, that has been derived. 4. Of all these groupes or classes of intimately connected psy- chological entities, to motives alone is the appellation Springs of action immediately applicable : to the others, no otherwise than in virtue of the relation they respectively bear to Motives. 5. Psychological dynamics (by this name may be called the science, which has for its subject these sam e springs of action, con- sidered as such) has for its basis psychological pathology. Pleasure and exemption from pain fall to be considered every where in the character of ends: pleasure and pain here in the character of means. (b) [Pleasures.] Synonyms to the word pleasure: iucluding those by which are designated the correspondent states of mind, and their respective causes, l. Gratification. 2. Enjoyment. 3. Fruition. 4. Indulgence. 5. Joy. 6. Delight. 6*. Delecta- tion. 7. Hilarity. 8. Merriment. 9. Mirth. 10. Gaiety. 11. Airiness. 12. Comfort. 13. Solace. 14. Content. 15. Satisfac- tion. 16; Rapture. 17. Transport. 18. Ecstasy. 19. Bliss.— 20. Joyfulness. 21. Gladness. 22. Gladfulness. 23. Gladsome- ness. - 24. Cheerfulness. 25. Comfortableness. 2d. Contented- u