EP1: If the pleasures of humans and animals are exactly the
same, what is a pleasure for swine will a pleasure enough for man. (8)
IP1: There must
be some delineation between the pleasures of animals and man, because this
supposes that human beings are only capable of the pleasures of which animals
are capable.
EP2: Animalistic pleasures do not completely fulfill a human
being’s conception of happiness. (8).
IP2: There is
a contrast between the pleasures of man and the pleasures of animals.
EP3: Human beings have a conception of happiness elevated
beyond that of animalistic pleasures. (8)
EP4: Once made conscious of this elevated conception of
happiness, human beings do not regard anything as happiness which does not
satisfy this faculty. (8)
EP5: People capable of both kinds of pleasures generally
have a preference toward the ones that require this higher faculty. (9)
EP6: Few people who have employed their higher faculties
would allow themselves to be resigned back to only the lower pleasures. (9)
IP3: There
is a distinct value placed on pleasures derived from the higher faculties,
because it is placed higher in value than base pleasures.
EP7: Of two types of pleasures, if there is one that is
preferred by those who have experienced both, despite moral reasoning to prefer
it, that is the greater pleasure. (8)
EP8: Pleasure of the higher human faculties is greater than
that of base pleasures because of the people who have experienced both, none
prefer to lower themselves to base pleasure once more. (9).
EP9: Human pleasures which require higher faculties
of knowledge are of a higher quality than more animalistic ones. (10)
