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Hedonic
Hedonic meaning
Of or relating to pleasure | Pursuing pleasure in a devoted manner | Of or relating to the hedonists or to hedonism
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Hedonic happiness (derived from the Greek word “hedone” meaning “pleasure”) refers to the feelings we get from creature comforts.
The problem is what is known as hedonic adaptation.
Bentham endeavored to find the ideal human behavior based on hedonic calculus or the measurement of relative gains and losses in pain and pleasure to determine the most pleasurable action a human could choose in a situation.
Conjoining hedonism—as a view as to what is good for people—to utilitarianism has the result that all action should be directed toward achieving the greatest total amount of happiness (see Hedonic calculus ).
In Chapter IV, Bentham introduces a method of calculating the value of pleasures and pains, which has come to be known as the hedonic calculus.
Use and indirect use values can often be inferred from revealed behavior, such as the cost of taking recreational trips or using hedonic methods in which values are estimated based on observed prices.