Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What is pleasure?
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Getting what you want

This position holds that pleasure is the satisfaction of desire: what makes an experience pleasant is that it gives a person something they wanted, which is why the very same event delights one person and leaves another indifferent.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. The same event is pleasant or not depending only on whether it was wanted
  2. Pleasure can be taken in things that carry no pleasant sensation at all