An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 113
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- Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain.
- 5. T. R moneA chetimple Ideas, Whichwe receive borh trom Senlation
- a alsel Reflection, Pain and Pleasureare tivo verr considerable
- Ones. FOr as in ehe BodY; there is Senlation barelr in its selt, Or accom
- paried wich Pain or Pleasure: Po the Thoushe, or Perception of theNind
- is simply (0, or else accommpanied alto wich Pleasure or Pain, DelighE ox
- Trouble, call it hou rou please. These libe other simple Ideas CanNOL
- be described, nor their Names detined; the ay oF lnovine them is, 25
- oFthe simple Ldeas oFthe Senses, orly by Experience: For ro detine them
- Dy the Presence of Good or Fril, is no otheririse to makce them LnoWn tO
- us, than by malsins us resseet on Whar we scel in our selves, upon the se-
- veraland various Operations ol Cood and Evil upon our Minds, 25 thcy
- are ditterent applicd to, or considered By uS.
- 2. Thinssthen are 5ood or eril, ontr in reserence eo pleature or Pain;
- That we call Good, irtrich is ape to caule or increase Pleature, or diministr
- Pain in us; or else to procure, er preserre usthe possession of any ottiex
- Codd, or absence or ans Lvil. And on the cortrary vename chat, Pvil
- nhich is apt to produce or increase any Pain, or diministr any Pleasure
- in us; Or else tO procure us anr Fvil, or deprire us of any G0od. By
- Pleasure and Pain, Imust De understoodro mean of Body or Minc, asthey
- are commonlu distinguisted; chouch, in truchu, cher be orty different
- Constiturions of the Minc Comerimes occasioned by disorder in che Body,
- Tometimes by Phouohts ot thoMind.
- 5. 3. Pleature and Pain, and that which caules them, G0od and Fril, are
- thehinges on Which our Passions turn: and it re reslect on our selves
- hon theleunder rarious Conliderations operate in us, irhat Modifications
- Or Tempers of Mind, Wrhat internal Senlarions, (il l may, (0 call them, )
- they produce in us, We may cherce torm ro our selves e Ideas oE oux
- PaltIOnS.
- 5. q. Thus any one restectine upon che Flouxhc he has ot che Deliehe,
- which any present or absent chins is apt 10 produce in him, hasthe Idea
- We call Love. For When a Man declares in Aurumn, When he is carine
- them; or in Sprins, wrhen there are none, that he loves Crrapes, it isno
- more, but chatthe taste os Grapes delighes him; let an alteration oFLsealth
- or Constiturion destroy che delixh oF cheir Faste, andherhen cam be laidto
- love Crapes no longer.
- 5. 5. On che contrary, che Thoustit oPthe Pain which any chins pre-
- senc or ablent is apt to produce in us, is Wrhat we call LTatred. Were it
- my buliness here to enguire ary Farcher, than into the bare Ideas oF our
- Pastions, as thes devend on different Moditications ol elealure and lain
- Tcould remarke Fhat our Love and Flatred oF inanimare insensible Beines, is
- commonly Founded on that Pleature and Pain ve receire trom their ule
- and application any way to our senses, thouch ich cheir Destruction;
- but Love and Flatred to Beinos capable of Ilappiness or Milery, is ottenthe
- Painor Delight re hare in their very Beins or Ilappiness. Thusthe Beine
- and Weltare oFa PlanS Children or Friends, producins constant Deliohe in
- him, ho is laid constantly ro love them. But it SuIHCES LO nOte FhaE OUr
- Ideas ot Lore and FTatred, are bue the Dispositions of the Mind, in re
- speA OF Dlenturc and Fais in General honerer cauled in Us.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 113. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0129?run=74