Few individuals go through anything remotely resembling the "hedonic calculus" laid down by Bentham.
Schumpeter's theory of value rests solely in an analysis of thehedonic factors mentioned, conceived of as individual psychological magnitudes.
But the evolutionary process has been clumsy; we are not properly adjusted; we become the victims of ideas fixes; ideas and activities obsess us quite without relation to their hedonic value.
It is not true that we inevitably act along the line of least hedonic resistance, that pain necessarily veers us off and pleasure irresistibly attracts.
I cannot but feel that contemporary definitions of value that omit reference to hedonicdifferences e.
The hedonic qualities, on the other hand, which are physiologically conditioned by much simpler motor counterparts, may of course be transmitted with far greater perfection: it is easier to suggest a pleasure than a thought.
It is also evident that it is the most general hedonic and volitional elements which have been considered by the German authors on aesthetic in their theories on internal imitation ("Die innere Nachahmung").
