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A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures, and pains of which man's nature is susceptible : together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them : and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designed : to which are added explanatory notes and observations indicative of the applications of which the matter of this Table is susceptible, in the character of a Basis or Foundation, of and for the Art and Science of Morals, otherwise termed Ethics,--whether Private, or Public alias Politics-- (including Legislation)--Theoretical, or Practical alias Deontology--Exegetical, alias Expository, (which coincides mostly with Theoretical,) or Censorial, which coincides mostly with Deontology; also of and for Psychology, in so far as concerns Ethics, and History (including Biography) in so far as considered in an Ethical point of view / by Jeremy Bentham, Esq.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings.
- Pleasure.
- Pain.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hills, Robert (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 32 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Table of the springs of action
- Fingerprint:
- 29of r-ad o-n- (N(N (3) 1817 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sold by R. Hunter, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1817.
- Notes:
- Corrigenda and advertisements on preliminary p. [4].
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has monogram on t.p.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Robt. Hills.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.
- Cited in:
- Goldsmiths', 21692
- OCLC:
- 506787653
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