Usually means: Pursuit of happiness, avoidance of pain.
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  2. pleasure principles: Collins English Dictionary
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(Note: See pleasure_principle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pleasure principle)

noun:  (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) 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.
▸ Also see pleasure_principle


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