Sentence examples for aggregate pleasure from inspiring English sources

Utility, or aggregate pleasure (1861b, 137), provides the ultimate standard for comparing two historical eras or two contemporaneous societies.

Since each person's happiness is constituted of the aggregate balance of pleasures over pains, this is "the sole end which the legislator ought to have in view: the sole standard in conformity to which each individual ought, as far as depends upon the legislator, to be made to fashion his behaviour" (1970, 34).

What keeps him doing the job is the aggregate of small pleasures: being out on the road, listening to the music he wants to, and seeing his longtime regulars come to the door.

First, in the realm of hedonic evaluation, there are marked divergences between the aggregate sums of in-the-moment pleasures and pains and ex post memories of pleasures and pains.

beauty-the aggregate of qualities that gives intense pleasure to the senses or deep satisfaction to the mind or spirit.

Vicarious pleasure?

Pure pleasure.

But pleasure?

With pleasure!

His pleasure.

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