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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · providence and divine governance · hunger and thirst · divine design · contentment removes action
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
Locke explains that when a person is content with their current state (no uneasiness), there is little or no industry or action; he ties this to divine design placing hunger and thirst to preserve life and the species.
34. This is the Spring of Action. When a man is perfectly content with the state he is in—which is when he is perfectly without any uneasiness—what industry, what action, what will is there left, but to continue in it? Of this every man’s observation will satisfy him. And thus we see our all-wise Maker, suitably to our constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines the will, has put into man the unea…