Sentence examples for amounts of pleasure from inspiring English sources

"One was named Mike Limongello, which gave me endless amounts of pleasure".

Note first that we must reject the posthumous harm thesis if we adopt positive hedonism and combine it with comparativism, for nothing that happens after we die can boost or reduce the amounts of pleasure or pain in our lives.

It is crucial to this approach that preferences hold not just between outcomes (such as amounts of pleasure, or combinations of pleasure and knowledge), but also between uncertain prospects (such as a lottery that pays \$1 million dollars if a particular coin lands heads, and results in an hour of painful electric shocks if the coin lands tails).

To determine whether it is right to do A or not to do A, we must be able to compare the strengths of Jones's and Smith's preferences (or the amounts of pleasure each would receive in her preferred outcome) in order to determine whether doing A or not doing A would be better overall.

W1 contains virtuous people and W2 contains vicious people, and that the two worlds contain equal amounts of pleasure, because although W1-type worlds usually contain more pleasure than W2-type worlds, W1's extra virtue-generated pleasure is offset by 'a much greater incidence of disease', making the worlds equal in pleasure.

And, just as with my parents creating me, without those same, exact people involved, my children and his or her partners, there would never be those grandchildren we love so much today, and who bring us untold amounts of pleasure.

Yet it also brings a huge amount of pleasure.

It gives me an equal amount of pleasure and pain.

There is a huge amount of pleasure in this.

That gives me a huge amount of pleasure".

"I get sort of an insane amount of pleasure out of that".