An attempt to quantify the effects of it uses duration and intensity as two of seven "dimensions" in its namesake "calculus".
Robert Nozick's "experience machine" thought experiment attacks this concept as the only intrinsic value by putting people in a place devoted only to it. An attempt to quantify the effects of it uses duration and intensity as two of seven "dimensions" in its namesake "calculus". Aristotle argued this concept manifests itself as the highest human state through eudaimonia. Epicurus equated the lack of pain to the highest possible amount of this state. According to Sigmund Freud, the id is compulsively driven to find this state in a namesake "principle". For 10 points, name this self-serving state of being whose pursuit is espoused by hedonism.
Robert Nozick's "experience machine" thought experiment attacks this concept as the only intrinsic value by putting people in a place devoted only to it.
happiness [or pleasure; or felicity; or making one's self happy; or being happy; or level of happiness;or similar answers that indicate happiness or pleasure; accept Hedonism before "quantify"]