Editing Pleasure (section)

===Related concepts===
The concept of pleasure is similar but not identical to the concepts of [[well-being]] and of [[happiness]].<ref name="CraigHappiness">{{cite book |last1=Craig |first1=Edward |title=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=1996 |publisher=Routledge |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/BEAREO |chapter=Happiness}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Haybron |first1=Dan |title=Happiness |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=29 January 2021 |date=2020}}</ref><ref name="Crisp"/> These terms are used in overlapping ways, but their meanings tend to come apart in technical contexts like philosophy or psychology. ''Pleasure'' refers to a certain type of experience while ''well-being'' is about what is good for a person.<ref name="Tiberius">{{cite book |last1=Tiberius |first1=Valerie |title=The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory |publisher=Oxford University Press USA |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HIROHO |chapter=Prudential value|year=2015 }}</ref><ref name="Crisp">{{cite web |last1=Crisp |first1=Roger |title=Well-Being |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=29 January 2021 |date=2017}}</ref> Many philosophers agree that ''pleasure'' is good for a person and therefore is a form of ''well-being''.<ref name="Weijers"/><ref name="Crisp"/> But there may be other things besides or instead of pleasure that constitute ''well-being'', like health, virtue, knowledge or the fulfillment of desires.<ref name="Tiberius"/> On some conceptions, ''happiness'' is identified with "the individual's balance of pleasant over unpleasant experience".<ref name="Haybron">{{cite web |last1=Haybron |first1=Dan |title=Happiness: 2.1 The chief candidates |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |date=2020}}</ref> ''Life satisfaction theories'', on the other hand, hold that ''happiness'' involves having the ''right attitude towards one's life as a whole''. ''Pleasure'' may have a role to play in this attitude, but it is not identical to ''happiness''.<ref name="Haybron"/>

Pleasure is closely related to value, desire, motivation and right action.<ref name="CraigPleasure">{{cite book |last1=Craig |first1=Edward |title=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=1996 |publisher=Routledge |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/BEAREO |chapter=Pleasure}}</ref> There is broad agreement that pleasure is valuable in some sense.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}