Sentence examples for constitutes pleasure from inspiring English sources

As far as explaining how subjectively universal judgments are possible, Kant has a complicated story about the harmonious interplay of the cognitive faculties — imagination and understanding — which he thinks constitutes pleasure in beauty (Kant 1790, p. 60).

While there remain problems with thinking that these neurons' activity simply constitute any pleasure, or are either necessary or sufficient for all pleasure, they seem at least very closely connected with some pleasure.

They constitute a pleasure, albeit a guilty one.

Doing so (as in the passage first cited above) avoids the unintuitiveness that some (e.g., Feldman 1997a) see in interpretations of Sidgwick's views that make pleasure intrinsically valuable but itself constituted by its relation to desire.

What he shows — and what constitutes the main pleasure of the stories — is inductive reasoning.

VICKI MEYER Sarasota, Fla., July 31 , 2013To the Editor: While I agree with Susan Jacoby that it is no worse for women than for men to engage in virtual sex, I object to her moralizing on what constitutes valid erotic pleasure.

According to Elaine Sciolino, the American-born author of "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life," the intricately, often rigidly formalized pursuit of pleasure constitutes France's "unofficial ideology, a guiding principle codified in everyday assumptions and patterns of behavior so well established and habitual that they are automatic".

Nothing is added by saying that the pleasure constitutes my good, or is good for me.

However, travel for business and pleasure constitutes only a fraction of total human movement.

Any philosopher holding that desires are constituted by pleasures or seemings might well take this position (e.g., Oddie 2005; Stampe 1987; Strawson 1994).

For instance, John might be just so constituted to experience pleasure in the face of another person's pain.