Rather, I may insist, reason requires one to advance one's own good, and this good consists in, for example, pleasure, power, or honour.
This means that if some things that are intuitively of value, such as knowledge, do not, in fact, always lead to what a theory holds to be the one intrinsic value (for example, pleasure), then the theory is committed to denying that these things are really always of value after all.
For example, the pleasure of reading Shakespeare, by its very nature, is more valuable than any amount of basic animal pleasure.
French favourite Marco Materazzi took, for example, immense pleasure in conveying news of Holland's second goal against Romania and, despite the fact that France were in possession at the time, Buffon did a little jump of joy.
There is, for example, the pleasure of the pause at the restaurant's entryway, where red paper lanterns move with the wind above, and behind the steamed glass of the storefront a woman in a quilted coat shapes dim sum in a fierce and hurried way, as if she were just catching a train and had been called back.
One common such example is pleasure, which is often said to be intrinsically good.
Aristotle's statement implies that in order to determine whether (for example) the pleasure of virtuous activity is more desirable than that of eating, we are not to attend to the pleasures themselves but to the activities with which we are pleased.
For example, bonobos' pleasure principle extends to include behaviors we, as humans, would categorize as incest and pedophilia.
Many of the training scenarios specify one or more positive emotions to be imagined, for example, enjoyment, pleasure, interest, or excitement.
For example, a pleasure craft with incipient slime on it may be considered fouled by the owner who may insist on cleaning, but it may not impact the overall performance of that particular vessel.
But his work doesn't have the kind of sensational sexiness that makes the academic paintings of Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme, for example, guilty pleasures for modern viewers.
