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Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind

THE SECOND VOLUME.

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CHAPTER XIV. PAGE

Some Names which require a particular Explanation 1

SECTION 1. Names of Names 3

2. Relative Terms 6

Abstract Relative Terms 72

3. Numbers 89

4. Privative Terms 99

5. Time 116

6. Motion 142

7. Identity 164

CHAPTER XV.

Reflection 176

CHAPTER XVI.

The Distinction between the Intellectual and Active Powers of the Human Mind 181

CHAPTER XVII.

Pleasurable and Painful Sensations 184

CHAPTER XVIII.

Causes of the Pleasurable and Painful Sensations 187

CHAPTER XIX.

Ideas of the Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, and of the Causes of them 189

CHAPTER XX.

The Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or future 196

CHAPTER XXI.

The Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or future 201

SECTION 1. The immediate Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations, contemplated as passed, or as future 201

2. The Remote Causes of Pleasurable and Painful Sensations contemplated as passed, or future 206

SUB-SECT. 1. Wealth, Power, and Dignity, and their Contraries, contemplated as Causes of our Pleasures and Pains 207

2. Our Fellow-Creatures contemplated as Causes of our Pleasures and Pains 214

1.—Friendship 216

2.—Kindness 216

3.—Family 218

4.—Country 226

5.—Party; Class 227

6.—Mankind 229

3. The Objects called Sublime and Beautiful, and their Contraries, contemplated as Causes of our Pleasures and Pains 230

CHAPTER XXII.

Motives 256

SECTION 1. Pleasurable or Painful States, contemplated as the Consequents of our own Acts 256

2. Causes of our Pleasurable and Painful States, contemplated as the Consequents of our own Acts 265

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Acts of our Fellow-creatures, which are Causes of our Pains and Pleasures, contemplated as Consequents of our own Acts 280

CHAPTER XXIV.

The Will 327

CHAPTER XXV.

Intention 396

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