| 1. | "... to human suffering. (4) But Bentham cannot
be said to have developed anything like a convincing account of pleasure
and pain, of happiness, or of social utility."
| Source: | Nussbaum, Martha C. "Mill between Aristotle & Bentham" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 60-69
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| 2. | " Policy framed in
accordance with utility seeks to maximise pleasure and minimise pain
(Bentham 1973)."
| Source: | Levin-Waldman, Oren M. "Minimum Wage and Justice? [1]" Review of Social Economy 58.1 Mar. 1 2000: 43
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| 3. | " Jeremy
"two-sovereign-masters-pain-and-pleasure" Bentham is the
primary source of the hedonistic branch of Utilitarianism, based on an
individual calculus of utility."
| Source: | MARIETTA, MORGAN,PERLMAN, MARK. "The Uses of Authority in Economics: Shared Intellectual Frameworks as the Foundation of Personal Persuasion" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 59.2 Apr. 1 2000: 151
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| 4. | " For instance,
for Amitai Etzioni (1986), one should distinguish substantive ends,
which generate "pleasure utility," from ideal ends, which
engender "moral 'utility'." Etzioni's
"pleasure utility" corresponds to Kant's permitted ends,
while Etzioni's "moral "utility" corresponds to
Kant's obligatory ends."
| Source: | Khalil, Elias L. "The gift paradox: complex selves and symbolic good" Review of Social Economy 62.3 Sept. 1 2004: 379-393
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| 5. | " Should the
consumer's initial pleasure from steak consumption be low enough
that B [less than] [e.sup.-[sigma]N] D[gamma], the marginal cost,
discounted to the first opportunity to consume the harmful good,
outweighs the marginal utility of consumption."
| Source: | GOLDBAUM, DAVID. "LIFE CYCLE CONSUMPTION OF A HARMFUL AND ADDICTIVE GOOD" Economic Inquiry 38.3 July 1 2000: 458
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| 6. | "
The relationships discussed up to this point are about pleasure and
utility and are based on equality, but Aristotle identifies other kinds
of philia that involve a superiority of one of the partners (NE
1158b11)."
| Source: | SMITH, THOMAS W. "Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good" American Political Science Review 93.3 Sept. 1 1999: 625
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| 7. | "
Benthamite pleasures or utilities."
| Source: | Churchill, Larry R. "Are We Professionals? A Critical Look at the Social Role of Bioethicists" Daedalus 128.4 Sept. 22 1999: 253
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| 8. | "
Though I still am having some consternation over the fact that the
full-size, luxury sport utility market has taken off, I found the
Escalade to be a pleasure to drive whether I was on or off the road.
"
| Source: | Moorhead, Ron. "Cadillac cites profit in Escalade offering" Washington Times June 11 1999: 12
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| 9. | " An
individual oriented to spending for reasons of status recognition makes
the decision with an eye toward the desired effect, a process equally
well described by instrumental rationality or pleasure utility."
| Source: | Redmond, William H. "Consumer Rationality and Consumer Sovereignty" Review of Social Economy 58.2 June 1 2000: 177
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| 10. | "
The production and assurance of pleasure in this highest sense is
true utility."
| Source: | Peacock, Thomas Love,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "What is utility?" Arts Education Policy Review 105.6 July 1 2004: 33-39
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| 11. | "... of
legislation," and his greatest happiness principle was itself
predicated on a precise arithmetical computation of the pleasure/pain
principle, which he claimed would provide the necessary scientific
foundation for social and..."
| Source: | Harrison, John R. "Dickens's Literary Architecture: Patterns of Ideas and Imagery in Hard Times" Papers on Language & Literature 36.2 Mar. 22 2000: 115
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| 12. | " To recover lost happiness
we should allow ourselves, he feels, to be guided by our innate instinct
for pleasure and our avoidance of pain. "After all," he wrote
long ago, "freedom from pain and anxiety is the goal of everything
we do." Perhaps."
| Source: | Philp, Richard. "Health" Dance Magazine 74.2 Feb. 1 2000: 12
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| 13. | " Where much of contemporary American culture
now places the highest valuation on pleasure, especially sexual
pleasure, and on the avoidance of any sort of pain,..."
| Source: | Levenson, Jon D. "The New Enemies of Circumcision" Commentary 109.3 Mar. 1 2000: 29
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| 14. | "... and desire."
Outside the orbit of pleasure and pain, "euphoria" can only be
"freedom." Yet the phrase "affective freedom"
implies both freedom from affect and freedom that is itself affective."
| Source: | TERADA, REI. "Pathos" Studies in Romanticism 39.1 Mar. 22 2000: 27
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| 15. | "... I
would have cured / the leukemia of this highway of nightfall." More
frequently, however, Crasnaru's flash has real heat behind it:
The ah of pain, the ah of pleasure."
| Source: | ORR, DAVID. "Sea Level Zero" Poetry 176.5 Aug. 1 2000: 292
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| 16. | "
Freud wrote in 1905+ "Seeing is ultimately derived from
touching," which is sexually "indispensable," "a
source of pleasure." The most "touching" textures in
paint are subliminally sexual, that is, poignantly suggestive of tactile
sensations abstracted from an object."
| Source: | Kuspit, Donald. "NORA SPEYER" Artforum International 38.10 June 22 2000: 186
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| 17. | " Full of mischief
and perhaps arrogance, too, Franklin challenged what he regarded as
Wollaston's shaky "Reasonings" by writing "a little
metaphysical piece" entitled A Dissertation on Liberty and
Necessity, Pleasure and Pain."
| Source: | MORGAN, DAVID T. "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: CHAMPION OF GENERIC RELIGION" Historian 62.4 June 22 2000: 722
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| 18. | "... of pleasure and excruciating pain at the same time, a moment of
broken skin but not sexlessness, a moment just before sexlessness, a
moment that stops just before sexlessness, a moment that stops before it
breaks the skin" (184)."
| Source: | Rushdy, Ashraf H.A. ""Relate Sexual to Historical": Race, Resistance, and Desire in Gayl Jones's Corregidora" African American Review 34.2 June 22 2000: 273
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| 19. | "... and simultaneously reveal great
refinement in the understanding of self and individual body, with an
elaborate vocabulary for expressing subjective experience of pain and
pleasure."
| Source: | HSU, ELISABETH. "Early Chinese medical literature: the Mawangdui medicalmanuscripts" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.2 June 1 2000: 343
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| 20. | " Richardson paints a portrait of the courtship of death that
produces sadistic and voyeuristic pleasures for not only Lovelace and
the viewers of the corpse, but also for the novel's reader."
| Source: | ZIGAROVICH, JOLENE. "COURTING DEATH: NECROPHILIA IN SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S CLARISSA" Studies in the Novel 32.2 June 22 2000: 112
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| 21. | "
That he and other Cajuns celebrate the pain as well as the
pleasure in their fight for cultural identity mightily impresses Linda
Smelser, 49, an Augusta dance student..."
| Source: | Longaker, Mark. "Mountain musicians lend ear to Louisiana" Washington Times July 27 2000: 4
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| 22. | " If insurers can provide for a
man's pleasure, why can't they prevent a woman's pain of
unwanted pregnancy?"
| Source: | Washington, Adrienne T. "Men lend a deaf ear to the debate on women's issues" Washington Times July 25 2000: 2
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| 23. | "
This principle of substitution of society by the individual
constitutes the major premise of neoclassical theory: "A true
theory of economy can only be attained by going back to the great
springs of human action--the feelings of pleasure and pain...."
| Source: | MILIOS, JOHN. "Social Classes in Classical and Marxist Political Economy" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 59.2 Apr. 1 2000: 283
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| 24. | " I was alternately stupefied and aroused ... [Ono]
concluded the work with amplified sighs, breathing, gasping, retching,
screaming, many tones of pain and pleasure mixed with a gibberish of
foreign sounding language..."
| Source: | BOURDON, DAVID. "A Letter to Charlotte Moorman" Art in America 88.6 June 1 2000: 80
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| 25. | " Apprised of these bare biographical
facts, it takes but little imagination to conceive of the equally deep
pleasures and pains of belonging to the Colombian elite."
| Source: | Dalrymple, Theodore. "Bolivar's platter" New Criterion 18.7 Mar. 1 2000: 77
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