Sentence examples for net pleasure from inspiring English sources
Hedonists tend to assume that agents attempt to maximize their net pleasure over pain.
Global Drug Survey did this by developing a new (and as yet unvalidated scale) called the Net Pleasure Index.
Drugs and pleasure: using a specially designed tool called the Net Pleasure Index (developed with the help of Prof David Nutt) we aim to find out which drugs are associated with the best pleasure/harm ratio, and what level of drug use seems to strike the best balance of pleasure and harm.
That would give us the total amount of (net) pleasure (or pain) associated with each option.
This negative utilitarianism implies that the government should provide contraceptives, since that program reduces pain (and other disvalues), even though it also decreases total net pleasure (or good).
Third and relatedly, is it a pair of claims, one about desires for pleasure and the other about aversions to displeasure; or is it instead a single claim about overall or net desires for a sufficient or maximal net pleasure-displeasure balance?
The simplest form of consequentialism is classical (or hedonistic) utilitarianism, which asserts that an action is right or wrong according to whether it maximizes the net balance of pleasure over pain in the universe.
On this view, in assessing how well off someone is in life, we should look at how happy he or she is, that is, at the net balance of pleasure over pain in her life.
In classical utilitarian thinking, pioneered by Jeremy Bentham, welfare refers to happiness which, in turn, is understood as the net balance of pleasure over pain that the individual experiences (Bentham 1789).
In its classical form, utilitarianism demands that social institutions be arranged so as to maximize the sum total of happiness, understood as pleasure net of pain, while in its more contemporary version it calls for these institutions to maximize the sum total of desire-satisfaction.
Unless you're busy with a net, the gardener's pleasure can be short-lived.
