Sentence examples for considerations of pleasure from inspiring English sources

It might sound as though we are working with the kind of purely rational motivating factor that Locke's hedonistic theory clearly rejects; for Locke all human action is motivated by considerations of pleasure and pain.

The idea of power (for which he would later become known) sporadically appears as an explanatory principle, but Nietzsche tends at this time to invoke hedonistic considerations of pleasure and pain in his explanations of cultural and psychological phenomena.

If I have agreed to do something for you and I suddenly see some pleasurable alternative to fulfilling my obligation, most people would think that I ought to exclude the consideration of pleasure altogether from my deliberations even though the pleasure would be a consideration had I made no promise.

In a darker vein, Thomas Hobbes portrayed humans as moved solely by considerations of their own pleasure and pain.

Its philosophical foundations were laid in the 18th century by Immanuel Kant, who postulated the autonomy of aesthetic standards, setting them apart from considerations of morality, utility, or pleasure.

It highlights consumers' self-referential orientations: the pursuit of pleasure, tempered by considerations regarding comfort, is a major form of aesthetic justification.

Also under consideration is an thematic exhibition that would illustrate "The Pursuit of Pleasure," as shown in paintings with scenes of feasts, country picnics and, not surprisingly, various types of gaming.

After pub and club space, the third and final consideration is the notion of head space, utilised and commodified in the pursuit of pleasure in late modern consumer society.

But what kind of pleasure?

"Autonomy... of pleasure, I guess".

What is the source of pleasure?