A philosophicall discourse, entituled, The anatomie of the minde. Nevvlie made and set forth by T.R.
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A philosophicall discourse, entituled, The anatomie of the minde. Nevvlie made and set forth by T.R.
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Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.
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Imprinted at London :: By I[ohn] C[harlewood] for Andrew Maunsell, dvvelling in Paules Church yarde, at the signe of the Parret,
1576.
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Ethics.
Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.
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¶Of Pleasure, and her partes. Chap. 3.
PLeasure, as in his bookes of Tuscula∣ne questions, Cicero saith, is a gesting ioyfulnesse, a ioyfulnesse shewed forth, and expressed by the gesture of the bodie. Which translatiō or Metaphor is taken from brute Beastes, whose propertie is not by wordes, but by signes, and skyp∣ping to signifie theyr meaning. By which it may be gathered, that this per∣turbation belongeth not vnto a reaso∣nable creature, or vnto one of a confir∣med iudgemēt, but rather vnto Beasts, Chyldren or lyght persons, which when they haue obtayned any good thing, can no otherwise signifie theyr delyght and ioyfulnesse, except eyther immoderatly they laughe, or vnreasonably leape for ioye. This pleasure the Stoikes affirme to bee an vnreasonable puffing vp of the
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minde, supposing it selfe to enioye some great good thing.
Cicero in his seconde booke De finibus sayeth, Pleasure is a certaine pleasant mouing in the sense. Aulus Gelius sayth, it is a certain exultation, or an exc••eding reioysing, sprong of the euents of things desired. This Pleasure Aristotle makes of two sortes: one to come of ho∣nest and good things, the other of disho∣nest: and according to these two sortes, it hath two appellations geuen to it by the Latins. For in respecte of honest thinges, it is called Voluntas, but in re∣spect of dishonest Voluptas. And it is named Voluptas of one Volupe, or Vo∣lupia, which was Chamber mayde to that vertuous Gentlewoman, or patro∣nesse of pleasure Venus▪ So that the La∣tins séeme to take this pleasure, in the worser parte, but the Greekes indiffe∣rently: for they saye it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, whose deriuation is from sweetenesse or plea∣sauntesse. But to leaue the name, and come to the nature. Cicero wyll not haue a wyse man to be puffed with this pleasure: and Plato sayth it is the foode of filthinesse, for it dulleth the witte,
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weakneth the iudgement▪ and taketh a∣way vnderstanding. This pleasure is welbeloued, and hath many compani∣ons, especially, Ilwyl, Delectation, Ob∣lectation, Insultation, Boasting, Prodi∣gallitie, and Ambicion.