Kant defines pleasure as "the consciousness of vital effort".
It is odd to live in a democracy and to see how it often defines pleasure in terms of its exclusivity.
Augustine defines pleasure as assent toward what we will when cherishing/enjoying/possessing ("fruendo") it (City of God XIV, 6).
400 C.E ., whose Abhidharmakosa (1923-31) is a foundational psychological text for Northern Buddhists, avoided defining pleasure (sukha) in terms of current desire by defining it instead through desire for it arising after it has stopped (1984, p. 66).
First, Kant always defines pleasure as a state of mind connected with a disposition toward its own continuation, and in the first draft of the Introduction to the third Critique he adds that pleasure is a ground "for producing its object" (First Introduction to CPJ, section VIII, 20 230 1).
This in turn means that an aesthetic perception of a perfection is always a less than optimal cognition of that perfection, for having described sense perception or sensory cognition as clear but indistinct or confused, Wolff next defines pleasure as the sensory or "intuitive" cognition of perfection.
Connoisseurship of Hamilton's type is an inherently conservative act, tending toward the reaffirmation of highly defined pleasures.
Merriam-Webster defines "pleasure" as "a state of gratification," while fun is "what provides amusement or enjoyment; specifically, playful, often boisterous, speech or action".
Ms. Roberts can be thanked for illustrating the most fundamental principles that define guilty-pleasure summer reading.
He was found to be a "criminal lunatic" and shut away in Bethlem, as one of those grimly defined as "Pleasure Men" – those detained at the Queen's pleasure.
