pleasure principle

Noun

 * 1)  The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
 * 2) * December 28 1998, Richard Lacayo, "Where The Right Went Wrong," Time (retrieved 4 July 2015) :
 * Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts.
 * 1) * 2008 March 16,, "Brownstoners" (book review of The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott), New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2015) :
 * They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around.
 * They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 快樂原則
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: mielihyväperiaate
 * French: principe de plaisir
 * German:
 * Greek: αρχή της ευχαρίστησης
 * Hungarian: örömelv
 * Japanese: 快楽原則
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: haz ilkesi