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Proposition V
Оглавление"The Good is Pleasure.
"For the good results from the due performance of functions (Prop. IV); but the Good is a state of consciousness (Prop. II), therefore the Good is the state of consciousness which results from the due performance of functions (as such). Hence (by Definition), the Good is Pleasure.
"Obs.—By our definitions of Good and Pleasure it was evident that they were coëxtensive, being both marks of the same thing; to prove their identity it was necessary to show that Good is a state of consciousness."
Of these propositions Barratt says that I and II are perhaps the most important, since they assert the impossibility of Transcendentalism.
Part Second of "Physical Ethics" is a "Verification by Special Experience."
