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Whatever quantity of pleasure an instrument
of pleasure produces in any man, the same
quantity must the same instrument be
supposed to produce in any other man,
where no reason be for a difference
can be assigned—
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The same Equal Sums of Money given unexpectedly
accruing to each of 2 persons must be taken to produce
the same quantity of pleasure in
each
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The same Equal Sums of Money taken unexpectedly
taken away from [each of] 2 persons must
be taken to produce the same quantity of
pain in each—
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Unequal Sums of Money being given unexpectedly
given to each will produce quantities of pleasures in each that
will be respectively as these sums—
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Unequal Sums of Money being given unexpectedly
taken away from each, will produce
quantities of pain in each that will be
respectively as these sums—
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The value of a thing | is just what money it will bring
The Value of an instrument of pleasure
is the quantity of pleasure which be produced by 1
that 2 instrument— 3
7.
The Value of an instrument of pain,
is in like manner the quantity of pain
by that instrument produced. The our discourse
obliges to intend a little The ordinary
import of the word value is here
a little forced—
8.
The value quantity of pleasure produced by an
instrument of pleasure without deduction
of the pain produced by the same instrument
may be termed it's partial, or
ex parte value
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The quantity of pleasure produced by an
instrument of pleasure The quantity which remains after deduction of
the pain produced by the same instrument
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may be termed it's clear value.
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When the quantity of pain pleasure produced by an
instrument of pleasure exceeds the quantity
of pleasure pain produced by the same instrument
The clear value of that instrument as an instrument
of pleasure may be said to be
positive—
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When the quantity of pain produced by an
instrument of pleasure exceeds the quantity
of pleasure produced by the same instrument,
the clear value of that instrument
may be said to be negative.
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The value of a Pleasure of expectation is as
the apparent value of the pleasure of enjoyment
from whence it is derived that pleasure of enjoyment which is it's parent pleasure
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The apparent value of a Pleasure of enjoyment must be supposed to be a as
the real where no reason for a difference
can be assigned—
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Irascible preceded by Pain
The value therefore if a Pleasure of expectation
may be supposed to be as the real value
of the pleasure of enjoyment from whence
it is derived, where no reason for a difference
between the real and the apparent value of the
pleasure of enjoyment can be assigned.
The pleasures of the irascible appetite have
this circumstance peculiar to them: they
must have been preceded by a pain:which
pain as it seems is always greater than the pleasure.
Those of the may have been, and often
are: but it is those of the irascible only
that must: Desire without so long as it is without expectation
is a pain: but the same moment may have
given birth to the expectation and to the desire.
I am angry— I with a man— I feel an appetite
for his pain: a desire of putting
him to pain— I gratify that appetite— I
feel a pleasure— But I could not have felt
that pleasure without having been angry: if
I could not have been angry, without having
been in pain— I was angry— at what?
at something that gave me pain— There is no
being angry there is no feeling the pleasure of rationing anger upon any other terms.
INTROD. CH.II Of Happiness. Axioms [BR][1]Pleasures Irascible preceded by Pain.
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