63. A more particular account of wrong judgments.
But, to account more particularly for the misery that men
often bring on themselves, notwithstanding that they do all in earnest pursue happiness, we must consider how
things come to be represented to our desires under deceitful appearances: and that is by the judgment pronouncing
wrongly concerning them. To see how far this reaches, and what are the causes of wrong judgment, we must
remember that things are judged good or bad in a double sense:--
First, That which is properly good or bad, is nothing but barely pleasure or pain.
Secondly, But because not only present pleasure and pain, but that also which is apt by its efficacy or
consequences to bring it upon us at a distance, is a proper object of our desires, and apt to move a creature that has
foresight; therefore things also that draw after them pleasure and pain, are considered as good and evil.