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Often appears with: truthfulness and lying · pleasure and pain · justice as a virtue · justice and corporal punishment · good versus evil · duty, conscience, and obligation · courage and cowardice
Usually: reflection (1) · curiosity (1)
He uses German word distinctions to separate “well/ill” as conditions of feeling from “good/evil” as rational determinations of the will, illustrating this with Stoic pain and legal punishment examples.
{BOOK*1|CHAPTER*2 ^paragraph 5} The German language has the good fortune to possess expressions which do not allow this difference to be overlooked. It possesses two very distinct concepts and especially distinct expressions for that which the Latins express by a single word, bonum. For bonum it has das Gute [good], and das Wohl [well, weal], for malum das Bose [evil], and das Ubel [ill, bad], or das Well [woe]. So …