Classical Liberalism

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and more pleasure. Although the human
motivation is by pleasure it is the decision that are cold, selfish,
dispassionate, and rational assessment of the situation to choose how to avoid
the pain and receive the pleasure. The emphasis on the importance of rational
measurement of pleasure and pains that forms the calculating intellectual side
of the classical liberal's of psychology.
Classical liberalism tells us that if the individuals saw there was no
chance of pleasure or feared no pain, then they would be inert, motionless, or
in simpler terms. Just plain lazy. Any type of extra work is consider painful
therefore would not been done unless someone were to promise them greater
pleasure then the pain. This thinking of the human race being lazy came about
in the 1700 to 1770 in England where people only worked because of the fear of
hunger. The Reverend Joseph Townsend put this view very succinctly: " Hunger is
not only peaceable, silent and unremitted pressure, but, as ...

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