Sentence examples for condition of pleasure from inspiring English sources
Thelonious Monk's music stands for many things — intuitive rigor, rugged refinement, a system of intervallic order — but what often goes underused by his interpreters is its baseline condition of pleasure.
This result satisfies a necessary condition for pleasure to be the key of the decision making process in theoretical situations.
Pluralism in the present setting is the thesis that there is more than one basic kind of state or property that is pleasure, that pleasure is multiply or variously or diversely realizable, or that there is a basic plurality of sufficient conditions for pleasure.
However, happiness (eudaimonia), according to Epicurus, is not simply a neutral or privative condition but rather a form of pleasure in its own right — what Epicurus called catastematic or (following Cicero's Latin translation) "static" as opposed to "kinetic" pleasure.
To write well in the mother-child arena, a person must understand that the essential condition of motherhood isn't pleasure or wonderment or even terror — although there's plenty of that.
Though Ms. Newman writes that, "No subject offers a greater opportunity for terrible writing than motherhood," she praises Ms. Enright's contribution to the genre: To write well in the mother-child arena, a person must understand that the essential condition of motherhood isn't pleasure or wonderment or even terror — although there's plenty of that.
The unity objection to any such pluralism is that all instances of pleasure must meet some unitary sufficient condition, and that pluralism is inconsistent with this.
The stakes are much more than the conditions of access to pleasure.
Before modern capitalists settled on the minimum wage, Fourier proposed a minimum of sexual pleasure as a condition of citizenship.
This kind of laughter can bring about feelings of pleasure, and is often spontaneous, but that may be because we have conditioned ourselves to use it automatically.
But what kind of pleasure?
