We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

 Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It’s used to take people to whom we have nothing to say of our hands, and sometimes even ourselves. Etienne Bonnot

"Pleasure" refers to an experience that feels good, and that involves the enjoyment of something. The term is primarily used in association with sensory pleasures like the enjoyment of food or sex. But in its most general sense, it includes all types of positive or pleasant experiences including the enjoyment of sports, seeing a beautiful sunset, or engaging in an intellectually satisfying activity. Pleasure contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. Both pleasure and pain come in degrees and have been thought of as a dimension going from positive degrees through a neutral point to negative degrees. This assumption is important for the possibility of comparing and aggregating the degrees of pleasure of different experiences, for example, in order to perform the Utilitarian calculus.

The concept of pleasure is similar but not identical to the concepts of well-being and happiness. These terms are used in overlapping ways, but their meanings tend to come apart in technical contexts like philosophy or psychology. Pleasure refers to a certain type of experience while well-being is about what is good for a person. Many philosophers agree that pleasure is good for a person and therefore is a form of well-being. But there may be other things besides or instead of the pleasure that constitute well-being, like health, virtue, knowledge, or the fulfillment of desires. In some conceptions, happiness is identified with "the individual’s balance of pleasant over unpleasant experience".Life satisfaction theories, on the other hand, hold that happiness involves having the right attitude towards one's life as a whole. Pleasure may have a role to play in this attitude, but it is not identical to happiness.

Pleasure is closely related to value, desire, motivation, and right action. There is broad agreement that pleasure is valuable in some sense. Axiological hedonists hold that pleasure is the only thing that has intrinsic value. Many desires are concerned with pleasure. Psychological hedonism is the thesis that all our actions aim at increasing pleasure and avoiding pain. Freud's pleasure principle ties pleasure to motivation and action by holding that there is a strong psychological tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Classical utilitarianism connects pleasure to ethics in stating that whether an action is right depends on the pleasure it produces: it should maximize the sum total of pleasure.     ( Wikipedia study )     

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Theories of pleasure

Pleasure comes in various forms, for example, in the enjoyment of food, sex, sports, seeing a beautiful sunset, or engaging in an intellectually satisfying activity. Theories of pleasure try to determine what all these pleasurable experiences have in common, and what is essential to them. They are traditionally divided into quality theories and attitude theories. An alternative terminology refers to these theories as phenomenalism and intentionalism. Quality theories hold that pleasure is a quality of pleasurable experiences themselves while attitude theories state that pleasure is in some sense external to the experience since it depends on the subject's attitude to the experience. More recently, dispositional theories have been proposed that incorporate elements of both traditional approaches. ( Wikipedia research )

Types of pleasure 

Sense

The pleasures of sense. Stimulating the senses in many ways creates arousal, which can often be pleasurable. Bentham describes these as The pleasures of the taste or palate; including whatever pleasures are experienced in satisfying the appetites of hunger and thirst.

Wealth 

Wealth measures the value of all the assets of worth owned by a person, community, company, or country. Wealth is determined by taking the total market value of all physical and intangible assets owned, then subtracting all debts. Essentially, wealth is the accumulation of scarce resources.

Skill

There is a joy in simply being able to do something, whether it is an intellectual exercise or physical action. When we meet our goals, we get a sense of achievement and secure knowledge that we are in control. On this subject, Bentham said: The pleasures of skill, as exercised upon particular objects, are those which accompany the application of such particular instruments of enjoyment to their uses, as cannot be so applied without a greater or less share of difficulty or exertion. Amity  Friendship is a classic route to happiness and those with good friends (and who are good friends) can expect to have a longer, more fulfilling life.  Bentham described this as follows: The pleasures of amity, or self-recommendation, are the pleasures that may accompany the persuasion of a man's being in the acquisition or the possession of the good-will of such or such assignable person or persons in particular: or, as the phrase is, of being upon good terms with him or them: and as a fruit of it, of his being in a way to have the benefit of their spontaneous and gratuitous services. Good name One's name is one's brand. Who you are socially is, in many ways, who you really are. If you have a good reputation as a person then you effectively are in credit with significant social capital, which in turn allows you to ask things of others and expect people to help you without prompting. Bentham described the pleasures of a good name as that which: ...accompany the persuasion of a man's being in the acquisition or the possession of the good-will of the world about him; that is, of such members of society as he is likely to have concerns with; and as a means of it, either their love or their esteem, or both: and as a fruit of it, of his being in the way to have the benefit of their spontaneous and gratuitous services. These may likewise be called the pleasures of good repute, the pleasures of honor, or the pleasures of the moral sanction. Power Power gives one the ability to influence others and is a key contributor to one's sense of control. Bentham noted the pain-pleasure aspect of power, describing the pleasures as those that accompany: ...the persuasion of a man's being in a condition to dispose of people, by means of their hopes and fears, to give him the benefit of their services: that is, by the hope of some service, or by the fear of some disservice, that he may be in the way to render them Pity Almost in contrast to power, piety is about being reverent and dutiful, including to family, state, and church. Social values describe what 'good' is and complying with these rules can make you feel good, particularly in contrast to those wicked people who do not follow the rules as well as you. Bentham said: The pleasures of piety are the pleasures that accompany the belief of a man's being in the acquisition or in possession of the good-will or favor of the Supreme Being: and as a fruit of it, of his being in a way of enjoying pleasures to be received by God's special appointment, either in this life or in a life to come. These may also be called the pleasures of religion, the pleasures of a religious disposition, or the pleasures of the religious sanction. Relief Relief is a form of closure where an expected unpleasant event does not happen. In such cases, the lack of unpleasantness is experienced as pleasantness in itself. Bentham's comment on this is: To the catalog of pleasures may accordingly be added the pleasures of relief: or, the pleasures which a man experiences when, after he has been enduring a pain of any kind for a certain time, it comes to cease, or to abate. These may of course be distinguished into as many species as there are of pains: and may give rise to so many pleasures of memory, imagination, and expectation Expectation  Imagination helps you to think about the future and create expectations for pleasures to come. This anticipated pleasure can be as good, if not better, than the enjoyment of things happening. Bentham described these as: ...the pleasures that result from the contemplation of any sort of pleasure, referred to time future and accompanied with the sentiment of belief. These also may admit to the same distinctions If you like my blog please let me know in the comments                                               😍💗                                         Thank you

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