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. 1877 Excerpt: ...a future solution will be found. It will be sufficient in this place to prepare the way for a subsequent and more exhaustive working out of the problem, and at the same time to show whether a perfectly certain and exact conclusion is, in the nature of the inquiry, to be counted on. Life, according to our present stand ...
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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. 1877 Excerpt: ...a future solution will be found. It will be sufficient in this place to prepare the way for a subsequent and more exhaustive working out of the problem, and at the same time to show whether a perfectly certain and exact conclusion is, in the nature of the inquiry, to be counted on. Life, according to our present stand-point, is to be estimated solely by the standard of pleasure and pain. That is good which somehow lessens pain or increases pleasure; and any moment of life, and any circumstances of life, have a positive value only when the sum of pleasure is greater than that of pain. Such being the standard of value, our inquiry naturally commences with an investigation into the immediate conditions, mental and bodily, of pleasure and pain. Before we can know whether an excess of pleasure in life is possible or probable, it seems necessary to understand the way in which pleasure and pain arise. Now a complete scientific doctrine of pleasure and pain, in other words, a systematic science of hedonics, has, as yet, no existence. Many attempts have been made, from Aristotle downwards, to define the universal conditions of pleasure and pain, but it cannot be said that men have so far agreed what these conditions really are. The current generalisations on the subject appear for the most part to be too wide, and the plausible theory fails at certain points to cover the facts. Thus, for example, it is exceedingly doubtful whether certain pains of the senses, such as bitter tastes, can be brought, as Wundt seeks to bring them, along with all other modes of pain, under the principle of excessive stimulation. And, again, it is hardly manifest as yet, how bodily pains, as toothache and neuralgia, are to be subsumed under the same law of stimulation as the pains of exce...
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