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Happiness and Unhappiness. Their Kinds.

those pleasures, Has But the same thing which is the proper instrument
of one sort of pleasure being either the of either capable serving
itself as the instrument of many others, or convertible
into such different ones as are, by giving him one
sort of instrument, it gives him the choice as far as the value of that instrument goes of almost
every sort of pleasure it can give him.
By giving a man money or money's worth
it gives him all the pleasures that are to be had
for money. To Ethics it then belongs to assist
him in his choice. To Ethics therefore belong
all ulterior speculations concerning the particular
sorts of Pleasures.

As to Jurisprudence, not having any particular
pleasures to create, there is no particular pleasure
of which it has for that purpose any occasion to speak:
and for that of which there is no occasion to speak,
it is needless to find a name. It has no pleasures
I say to create: but some it has to proscribe.
For these particular ones therefore, it is find must find
by necessity to find a name. under a necessity of finding a name. Such are those of
Adultery, Drunkenness, Gaming under certain circumstances,
and a few others. But of these pleasures the
specific names are taken from the respective actions which
produce them: names already current, and in
the mouth of every one. And as to generic ones, there
are none of those specific ones but what are comprized
in these.


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13) Happiness and Unhappiness - Their Kinds. Note.

NOTE

To come in at p.5.
Pains and Pleasures why now only classed not enumerated. Pleasures of the
[d] It is proper to be observed, that the all the business
we have with Pains and Pleasures at present,
is to class them: to distribute them under such
general titles as we shall have occasion to make
mention of in the progress of the work. To ennumerate
them will not be necessary. Such minute
divisions as serve to resolve them into their ultimate
species belong rather to Ethics. We
shall content ourselves in this place with taking one by way
of example to illustrate the character of each
class. What For that of which there will be no occasion to speak, of
it is needless to find a name for.

Pains indeed we shall have occasion to enter
into a more particular investigation of in the
body of the work. with a view to Punishment The reason is, the different
course taken by the Law in the production of
Pains and Pleasures.
Pains why enumerated further on, and not Pleasures

Pains indeed we shall have occasion to enter into a more particular investigation examination of hereafter, when we come to speak of Punishment. The reason why it is necessary to be so much particular in regard to these than those in the different conduct course taken by the Law in the production of them: the ground of which we shall presently perceive. Pains it administers
immediately; and on that account enters by it's own immediate operation: entering with scrupulous accuracy
into the examination of the different sorts of
them, in order to see which is best calculated
to suit it's purpos purposes upon each occasion.
Pleasures it administers no otherwise than by sup-




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079

Main Headings

law in general

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023

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happiness and unhappiness - their kinds - note

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Number of Pages

4

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recto

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d13 / / /

Penner

jeremy bentham

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[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

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Paper Producer

caroline vernon

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25465

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