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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S6

Section 134 of 1,114

Canonical reference B2.C7.S6

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Though what I have here said may not, perhaps, make the ideas of pleasure and pain clearer to us than our own experience does, which is the only way that we are capable of having them; yet the consideration of the reason why they are annexed to so many other ideas, serving to give us due sentiments of the wisdom and goodness of the Sovereign Disposer of all things, may not be unsuitable to the main end of these inquiries: the knowledge and veneration of him being the chief end of all our thoughts, and the proper business of all understandings.

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

Quoi que ce que je viens de dire ne puiſſe peut-être de rien ſervir à nous faire connoître les idées du plaiſir & de la douleur plus clairement que nous les connoiſſons par notre propre expérience, qui eſt la ſeule voye par laquelle nous pouvons avoir ces Idées, cependant comme en conſiderant la raiſon pourquoi ces idées ſe trouvent attachées à tant d’autres, nous ſommes portez par-là à concevoir de juſtes ſentimens de la ſageſſe & de la bonté du Souverain Conducteur de toutes choſes, cette conſideration convient aſſez bien au but principal de ces Recherches, puiſque la principale de toutes nos penſées, & la véritable occupation de tout Etre doué d’Entendement, c’eſt la connoiſſance & l’adoration de cet Etre ſuprême.

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