 | David Hume - History - 1998 - 396 pages
...painful. If you push your enquiries farther, and desire a reason, why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object. i'» Perhaps, to your second question, why he desires health, he may also reply, that it is necessary... | |
 | David Wiggins - Ethics - 1998 - 414 pages
...painful. If you push your enquiries farther, and desire a reason why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object. Perhaps to your second question, why he desires health, he may also reply, that it is necessary for... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...may answer that sickness is painful. But if we ask him why he dislikes pain, no answer can be given. 'This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object.'4 Similarly, if an answer 1 T., 3, 2, 9, p. 552. « T., 3, 1. 2, p. 475. * EM ., 1, 138. p.... | |
 | Robert Audi - Philosophy - 2001 - 304 pages
...painful. If you push your enquiries further, and desire a reason why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object." See p. 134 of the reprint of the 1777 edition (La Salle, 111.: Open Court, 1960). 16. Two qualifications... | |
 | Gilles Deleuze - Philosophy - 1991 - 188 pages
...not go: "If you push your inquiries further and desire a reason why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object."3 By making pleasure into an end, the principles of the passions give action its principle,... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - History - 2003 - 696 pages
...painful. If you push your enquiries farther, and desire a reason, why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object. Perhaps, to your second question, why he desires health, he may also reply, that it is necessary for... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 2003 - 452 pages
...may answer that sickness is painful. But if we ask him why he dislikes pain, no answer can be given. 'This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object.'4 Similarly, if an answer 1 T., 3. 2, 9, p. 552. « T.. 3, i, 2, p. 475. 'EM, i. 138 p. 174.... | |
 | James Fieser - Philosophy - 2005 - 454 pages
...is painful; if you push your inquiries farther, desire a reason, why he hates pain, 'tis impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object. Perhaps to your second question, why he desire s health"! He may also reply, because it is requisite... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 2006 - 177 pages
...painful, If you push your enquiries farther, and desire a reason why he hates fain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end, and is never referred to any other object. Perhaps to your second question, why he desires health, he may also reply, that it is necessary for... | |
 | J. Edward Ketz - Business & Economics - 2006 - 448 pages
...painful. If you push your inquiries further and desire a reason why he hates pain, it is impossible he can ever give any. This is an ultimate end and is never referred to any other object. Something must be desirable of its own account, and because of its immediate accord or agreement with... | |
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Ask a man why he uses exercise ; he will answer, because he desires to keep his health. If you then enquire, why he desires health, he will readily reply, because sickness is painful. If you push your enquiries farther, and desire a reason why he hates... 
