Pleasure Vs. Happiness

So, being a psychological egoistic hedonist, I am justFor instance, let's assume that taking care of your
sure that a person can act and he will only act in abody and soul is the "right" things to do. (As defining
way to achieve his own self-interest. And thisof the "right "is not among the aims of this paper we
self-interest is nothing more then pleasure. Thecan use this as an axiom, without any need to prove.
pleasure he is looking for will be one of the three) So, if a person finds pleasure and satisfaction in
possible: carnal, intellectual or the ultimate. The highereating right and making jerks, then he is, actually, in a
level pleasures he is looking for, the more generalway to find both a carnal and ultimate pleasures. And
happiness he is going to find. In other words, thethis is, probably, going to provide the highest level of
person who looks for only carnal pleasures may findhappiness.
some happiness, but that happiness is going to beI should also point out that when using the concept
not as big as the happiness of the one who is looking"happiness" here, it might seem to mean that
for an intellectual pleasure more then for a carnal onehappiness, but not pleasure as it is. The notion
and finds it. And the person who, in his turn looks"happiness» I use more or less synonymic to
mostly for intellectual pleasures is going to find morepleasure. Happiness is, no doubt, is the highest degree
happiness, but of course not as much as the personof pleasure over a greater timeframe. Therefore,
who is in search of the ultimate pleasures. Certainly, itpleasure is still the only thing having the intrinsic value,
is quite possible, for a person to looks for ultimateand happiness is merely allotted to the degree and
pleasures conforming to the intellectual or carnal ones.endurance of pleasure.