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INTRODUCTION. Dimensions of Happiness

For if [an accession of Happiness to one member be] not
an accession of Happiness to the state, whole number then neither
not an is such an accession to any number less than
the whole, an accession to the whole number state: that is unless
but [there is] to every individual nothing that is or ever can be done by a
Legislature that works an accession of happiness
to every individual of the body state: uncertainty of individuals makes the fallacy therefore nothing
is done or ever can be by the Legislature that works an accession
of happiness to the state: which is
absurd.


3.

If 2 persons be upon a parity in other respects
the taking giving of a cause of pleasure to
the one which must first by taking it from the
other does not produce so much happiness in him
to whom that cause it is given as it destroys in him from
whom it is taken away — For the same cause
to produce equal pleasure in both, it should
first have belonged to neither

4.

When 2 persons are so circumstanced situated with
respect to a cause of happiness+ +viz. of a pleasure of expectation that one of them the expectation
of having it is in one is stronger than is in the
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other, that cause is of more value to the 1st
than to the 2d Obj. surprise i:e: unexpectedness a cause an increment of pleasure increase intensity - A. yes at the instant but a diminution of duration - viz a parte ante. and then the pain of the loss is to be consider'd - It produces more happiness between
them being in the hands of the 1st than of the second.

5

The proof of this is in experience — You are
not unhappy in not being a King — he who
is a King would be unhappy in being becoming what you
are — Now what is there that can be the reason of this? that is
what is there in the relation on the one hand of one who is a
King, and on the other, of you who are not so, to the object
in question - Royalty - (that is the ples causes
of pleasure it confers) that can makes a difference?
The only answer is - Expectation + or Attachment viz. Attachment in the person possessing - Expectation in [others.] parties indifferent. He
who is a King expects for his part that he
shall continue so — You on your behalf expect no such
thing for yours


NOTE

Between you and the King therefore there is
more happiness by each of you being remaining what he is,
than if each of you were to become the other.
It is therefore more right fit, as between you two that
the King should be a King than that you should
In the same manner it is more right that the King
should be a King, than that you should
(as between them two) than that
any other man in the Kingdom should.



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Pleasures of expectation may also be stiled
pleasures of reflection.

The possession of money is a pleasure of
expectation: the value of it consisting in the
pleasures of expectation which it may procure.

The expectation of money may be termed
a pleasure of expectation at second hand, of the 1st remove
a pleasure of expectation double-refined or
a pleasure of double reflection

As a pleasure of expectation simple reflection
is to a pleasure of possession, so is a
pleasure of double reflexion to a pleasure
of simple reflexion.

PLEAsure actual Pl Pleasure possible The value of a Pleasure actual present is in
the ratio of its magnitude: that is in the
conjunct ratio of its intensity & duration.
The value of a Pleasure possible to come is in
the conjunct ratio of its magnitude its
certainty probability & it's proximity+ +that is in a being whose existence is limited in duration.


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I PROPOS. I

It is not so hard+ + that is the pain is not so great to a man not to gain a given
a cause of pleasure as having had, to lose it. If it

2 DEMONSTRATION.

this be doubling, be let us then conceive a man to lose the
whole+ + Sum of his causes of pleasure, at once or to express it in one word,- of what he has his fortune - then will be he be to a certain
degree unhappy. but he who has a
certain pain and all along his purpose all along no more, has not gained
a sum fortune equal to it - therefore by the supposition
he is unhappy to the same degree -
as if he had lost his fortune - which is absurd
In like manner suppose the fortunes of every
person in the Kingdom to [be what] have been as they
are - then is every person in the Kingdom
in the same condition unhappy to the same degree as if he had just lost his
fortune which is still more absurd. Corollary against Gaming But
as he who hath all along had a certain fortune and no wise
has not gained the double one equal to it; so neither has
he any multiple of it; therefore he is an indefinite
number of times unhappier with it,
than if he had lost it - which is most still more absurd.
of all. INTROD. Dimensions of Happiness.

INTRODUCTION On the Dimensions of Happiness. [BR[4] Axioms.
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