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    The concept of pleasure may refer to both intellectual an... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Monist hedonism faces a challenge in establishing that pleasure is truly one thing.

    The concept of pleasure may refer to both intellectual and sensual experiences, which may be distinct kinds of things.

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    By contrast, naturalist views do face a particular difficulty in giving an account of a value that is genuinely unitary. On the goods approach, for example, the claim must be that there is one good that is genuinely singular, not a composite of other goods. So for example, a monist hedonist must claim that pleasure really is just one thing. Pleasure is a concept we use to refer to something we take to be in the natural world, and conceptual analysis may or may not confirm that pleasure really i

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