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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S2
Section 329 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C20.S2
English
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Things then are good or evil, only in reference to pleasure or pain. That we call GOOD, which is apt to cause or increase pleasure, or diminish pain in us; or else to procure or preserve us the possession of any other good or absence of any evil. And, on the contrary, we name that EVIL which is apt to produce or increase any pain, or diminish any pleasure in us: or else to procure us any evil, or deprive us of any good. By pleasure and pain, I must be understood to mean of body or mind, as they are commonly distinguished; though in truth they be only different constitutions of the MIND, sometimes occasioned by disorder in the body, sometimes by thoughts of the mind.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Donc les choſes ne ſont bonnes ou mauvaiſes que par rapport au Plaiſir, ou à la Douleur. Nous nommons Bien, tout ce qui eſt propre à produire & à augmenter le plaiſir en nous, ou à diminuer & abreger la douleur ; ou bien, à nous procurer ou conſerver la poſſeſſion de tout autre Bien, ou l’abſence de quelque Mal, que ce ſoit. Au contraire, nous appellons Mal, ce qui eſt propre à produire ou augmenter en nous quelque douleur, ou à diminuer quelque plaiſir que ce ſoit. Au reſte, je parle du Plaiſir & de la Douleur comme appartenant au Corps ou à l’Ame ſuivant la diſtinction qu’on en fait communément, quoique dans la vérité ce ne ſoient que différens états de l’Ame, produits quelquefois par le déſordre qui arrive dans le Corps, & quelquefois par les penſées de l’Eſprit.
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