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Chapter II.
Good and Evil their progress in a political State
or other Community
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Section 1. —
Consideranda or say subject matters of consideration
Definitions
In regard to Good and Evil consider
I. Their condition or import as to existence and
non existence. —
1. Their existential character or say character or
mode of designation in regard to existence, or say
logical character. — This is either positive or negative.
Positive Good is that which assumes not the
existence of evil, and which accordingly might
have place if there were no such thing as evil. —
Negative Good is that which is constituted by
the non existence of evil on the occasion in question
Positive Evil is that which assumes not the
existence of Good and which accordingly might have
place if there were no such thing as good —
II. In regard to each, — Their Quality. —
By good understand either pleasure, or the
absence or say, on the occasion in question the non-existence
of pain. — Pleasure understand is positive
good: — absence of pain, — negative good
By evil understand, either pain or the absence
or say, on the occasion in question, the nonexistence of
pleasure; — Pain is positive evil: — absence of pleasure if arising from
non negative evil.
III. Their relation in respect of causality —
Understand by good either actual pleasure or
absence of pain, or any thing considered as the cause of
pleasure, or of the absence of pain. —
Understand
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