Sentence examples for conception of pleasure from inspiring English sources

It follows from this conception of pleasure that every instance of pleasure must be good to some extent.

The conception of pleasure that Aristotle develops in Book X is obviously closely related to the analysis he gives in Book VII.

Sidgwick suggested we and the Stoics share a conception of pleasure as involving not its goodness but only the prima facie appearance that pleasure is good.

In Principles Chapter IV Bentham sets out his conception of pleasure and utility in more detail, distinguishing between intrinsic and relational dimensions of pleasures.

James Mill held something like this functional conception of pleasure (An Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind II, p. 184).

Perhaps the two are markers for fundamentally different affective and motivational states that should be separately designated by more scientific successors to our naive, natural, and undiscriminating common conception of pleasure.

Insofar as Mill does discuss subjective pleasures, he is not clear which, if either, of these conceptions of pleasure he favors.

The Kantian conception of aesthetic pleasure, as a variety of experience which arises only where the egotistical interests that constitute the commerce of everyday life are not in play, suggests the possibility of a community forming around shared non-hostile pleasures.

It will also elucidate the Aristotelian explanation for the phenomenon called 'weakness of the will', his conception and evaluation of pleasure, the importance of friendship, and take up the controversy whether Aristotle's ex-planation of the supreme good represents a tension in his system.

There is no doubt that his initial formulation of his conception of happiness in terms of pleasure misleadingly leads us to expect greater continuity between his own brand of utilitarianism and the hedonistic utilitarianism of the Radicals than we actually find.

What are we to make of this conception of happiness as a mixture of pleasure and knowledge that is based on 'due measurement'?