Sidgwick, having failed to find any special introspectible quality distinguishing his experiences of pleasure (1907, pp. 127-31), characterized pleasure as "Desirable Consciousness or Feeling of whatever kind" (p. 402).
But formally they will differ: the hedonist will refer to pleasantness as the good-maker, while the desire theorist must refer to desire-satisfaction. (It is worth pointing out here that if one characterizes pleasure as an experience the subject wants to continue, the distinction between hedonism and desire theories becomes quite hard to pin down).
Hedonic: Of, relating to, or characterized by pleasure.
Happiness can be thought of, the authors of An Everyone Culture point out, as a state fundamentally characterized by pleasure.
Our analysis revealed that some men described having occupied the emphasized masculine position which we argue is a youthful masculinity, even though some older men may also occupy this position, that is characterized by pleasure seeking and having multiple concurrent sexual partners amongst other things (see also 29, 48).
In additional research, we found that the influence of recommendation algorithms on choices is greater for hedonic products – characterized by pleasure-oriented consumption (e.g., movies, perfume, art pieces) – than for utilitarian products wherein consumption is motivated by functional need (e.g., paper clips, dishwashing agents and vacuum cleaners).
John T. Ward, who trains Beautiful Pleasure, characterized the race as "the battle of the titans".
Sun et al. (2008), in a qualitative study of women of AMA, reported similar ambivalent and conflicted feelings, characterized by apparent pleasure and hidden fear [ 42].
As hypothesized previously (Markou et al, 1998; Harrison et al, 2001; Markou and Kenny, 2002), elevations in brain reward thresholds associated with withdrawal from drugs of abuse may be homologous, or at least analogous, to the symptom of 'diminished interest or pleasure' (ie anhedonia) characterizing nondrug-induced depressions (American Psychiatric Association, 1994).
Professor Gendler turns to Julia Annas's suggestion that Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's idea of flow may be helpful in characterizing the condition that you take pleasure in the virtuous act.
