The Ethics of Naturalism: a Criticism

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The Ethics of Naturalism: a Criticism
William Ritchie Sorley
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Again, in the second place, it is true that pleasure is to be regarded as indirect in so far as it is entirely due to the cessation of a pain, and not to instantaneous ^ See the concluding pages of this chapter.
2 Philosophic des Unbewussten, 6th ed. , p. 660 ff.
222 THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
satisfaction of will. But it does not do to regard the pleasure as altogether indirect when, although the cessation of a pain is necessary for its produc- tion, it is itself something more than this cessati
...on. The inhibition of will often prevents the realisa- tion of an object which is very much more than a recompense in pleasurable quality for the pain of the restraint ; and, although the pleasure only arises when this painful state of inhibition is removed, it brings a direct and positive gain over and above the gratification of the cessation of the pain. In the third place, Hartmann argues that the satis- faction of will is often unconscious, whereas pain is eo ipso conscious. But, even admitting the reality of unconscious will or desire, which this argument involves, it does not follow that pleas- ure and pain are differently affected in regard to it.

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