Happiness, the sum of pleasures, is to be valued because it includes momentary pleasures, which are like in kind, their relative value depending only on their intensity.
So, a sum of pleasures or a maximum of pleasures cannot be the end moral agents are to aim for.
The solutions to the conflicts were found by the subjects in maximizing the bi-dimensional sum of pleasures aroused by both of the motivations pitted against each other.
But I'm now clear that the sum of my pleasure is greater through not having a team than having one.
The end is not happiness because happiness is the sum of particular pleasures (DL II 87 88).
These pleasures are not merely the sum of more elementary pleasures; they are qualitatively different.
Finally, Cabanac [ 20- 22], showed that behaviors involving some sensory displeasure could be selected by subjects when the outcome was yoked to a larger sensory pleasure in another sensory modality, and theorized that the final decision was reached according to the algebraic sum of the common currency, pleasure plus displeasure [ 5].
Transit Wireless and the construction company will pay the MTA about $46.8 million — a paltry sum — for the pleasure of offering you connectivity.
Like white light, which is the sum of all colors, such pleasure subsumes a spectrum of ideas, feelings, and sensations, which, if one is so inclined, can be sorted out through a prism of analysis.
The satisfaction of those mental powers summed up in the analogon rationis is a source of pleasure in its own right.
They calculated happiness, or utility, as the sum of good feelings minus bad, and argued that the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain were the sole springs of human action.
