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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728. Excerpt: ... my Expectation may possibly be disappointed, because some Desect either in the Fruit, or in my Palate may render it disagreeable to me. So that in this Case, tho Pleasure is the Motive to the Action, yet it is not the Agreeableness of the Action it self, (it being Experience only which can determine whether it will be agreeable or not) but only the Hope and Expectation that it will prove so, which is the Ground and Reason of that Action. WHEREAS with respect to moral Fitness, the Case is otherwise; we act because it appears to us beautiful and agreeable, antecedent to the Action, and not upon a Presumption or in Hope and Expectation that it will prove so. If I see my Neighbour in Distress, it instantly appears beautiful and agreeable to me to interpose for his Relief, supposing all Circumstances concur to render it sit and proper, and that I am capable of so doing. And in this Case, it is not any Pleasure or Agreeableness subsequent to, or that are the Attendants on, the Action, but it is the antecedent Beauty and Fitness of Relieving which is the Ground and Reason of that Action; and which will be beautiful and agreeable, whether I am prevailed upon by it to minister that Relief or not. And it is the antecedent Fitness which is the Foundation of that Pleasure we taste in and after the Performance of such an Action, and not the Pleasure which arises from the Performance of the Action, which is the Ground and Foundation of that antecedent Beauty and Agreeableness. THIS will be farther evident if we observe, that with respect to natural Good, as in the eating of a Peach, no one is Sharer by the Action, in that kind of Pleasure which the Action introdu F ccs, ces, but the Allor: Whereas with respect to ww- ral Good, or the communicating Happiness to others, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728. Excerpt: ... my Expectation may possibly be disappointed, because some Desect either in the Fruit, or in my Palate may render it disagreeable to me. So that in this Case, tho Pleasure is the Motive to the Action, yet it is not the Agreeableness of the Action it self, (it being Experience only which can determine whether it will be agreeable or not) but only the Hope and Expectation that it will prove so, which is the Ground and Reason of that Action. WHEREAS with respect to moral Fitness, the Case is otherwise; we act because it appears to us beautiful and agreeable, antecedent to the Action, and not upon a Presumption or in Hope and Expectation that it will prove so. If I see my Neighbour in Distress, it instantly appears beautiful and agreeable to me to interpose for his Relief, supposing all Circumstances concur to render it sit and proper, and that I am capable of so doing. And in this Case, it is not any Pleasure or Agreeableness subsequent to, or that are the Attendants on, the Action, but it is the antecedent Beauty and Fitness of Relieving which is the Ground and Reason of that Action; and which will be beautiful and agreeable, whether I am prevailed upon by it to minister that Relief or not. And it is the antecedent Fitness which is the Foundation of that Pleasure we taste in and after the Performance of such an Action, and not the Pleasure which arises from the Performance of the Action, which is the Ground and Foundation of that antecedent Beauty and Agreeableness. THIS will be farther evident if we observe, that with respect to natural Good, as in the eating of a Peach, no one is Sharer by the Action, in that kind of Pleasure which the Action introdu F ccs, ces, but the Allor: Whereas with respect to ww- ral Good, or the communicating Happiness to others, ...
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