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Definition of Pleasurableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasurableness
Literary usage of Pleasurableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"QUESTION CXLV. OF PROPRIETY. ARTICLE III.—Does propriety differ from utility and
pleasurableness ? R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus, Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas: Or, The Moral by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility and pleasurableness, but
differs from them in the way we look at things. ..."
3. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"My " absolute " end * of action must in every case, by the very necessity of my
mental constitution, be either virtuousness, or pleasurableness, or the two ..."
4. The Theory of Ethics by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"But now if the two words—pleasurableness, we will say, and goodness—are synonyms,
... But if pleasurableness signifies the same thing as goodness, ..."
5. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"QUESTION CXLV. OF PROPRIETY. ARTICLE III.—Does propriety differ from utility and
pleasurableness ? R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility ..."
6. Aquinas Ethicus, Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas: Or, The Moral by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"R. Propriety is found in the same subject with utility and pleasurableness, but
differs from them in the way we look at things. ..."
7. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"My " absolute " end * of action must in every case, by the very necessity of my
mental constitution, be either virtuousness, or pleasurableness, or the two ..."
8. The Theory of Ethics by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"But now if the two words—pleasurableness, we will say, and goodness—are synonyms,
... But if pleasurableness signifies the same thing as goodness, ..."
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