Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What is pleasure?
Position‹3 of 3

Getting sensual gratification

This position holds that pleasure is at root bodily, a form of sensual gratification registered through the senses, and that the richer pleasures of thought and achievement are extensions of that basic physical capacity rather than something separate from it.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. Every pleasure is a felt state, and feeling happens in the body
  2. An account of pleasure should start from the cases nobody disputes