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    When death is there, we are not.Epicurus On Pleasure - 2013 - In Fred Feldman Ben Bradley, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death. Oxford University Press.
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    The Praise of Pleasure: Philosophy, Education, and Communism in More’s Utopia.Edward Surtz - 1957 - Harvard University Press.
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    Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy.David Wolfsdorf - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
    The Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy that remain of philosophical interest today. In this volume Professor Wolfsdorf undertakes the first exploration of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure in relation to contemporary conceptions. He provides broad coverage of the ancient material, from pre-Platonic to Old Stoic treatments; and, in the contemporary period, from World War II to the present. Examination (...)
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    The pleasures of philosophy.Charles Frankel - 1972 - New York,: W. W. Norton.
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    Pleasure, mind, and soul: selected papers in ancient philosophy.C. C. W. Taylor - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists, showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central (...)
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    Pleasure in Philosophy and the Pretext of Theology.Cal Ledsham - 2015 - Quaestio 15:729-738.
    This paper considers the hermeneutic position, recently gaining some traction in the secondary literature, that Scholastics in the years 1330-1350 were not primarily interested in theology. Rather, their increasing engagement with “English subtleties” – a set of “logico-mathematical” techniques we now associate with scientific inquiry – was driven by their new, distinctively secular, natural-philosophy interests. In this, they become proto-moderns and philosophers in our contemporary sense. Consideration is given to whether this “pretext” reading of the Scholastics is coherent and (...)
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  7. No Philosophy for Swine: John Stuart Mill on the Quality of Pleasures.Michael Hauskeller - 2011 - Utilitas 23 (4):428-446.
    I argue that Mill introduced the distinction between quality and quantity of pleasures in order to fend off the then common charge that utilitarianism is ‘a philosophy for swine’ and to accommodate the (still) widespread intuition that the life of a human is better, in the sense of being intrinsically more valuable, than the life of an animal. I argue that in this he fails because in order to do successfully he would have to show not only that the (...)
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    The philosophy of pleasure: an introduction.Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek - 2024 - New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
    The experience of pleasure, alongside pain, is a primary element of human life. It rules our instincts and desires for food, sex and for the avoidance of various forms of harm. Crucial to psychological and social well-being, it has preoccupied philosophers from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill and plays a fundamental role in moral and ethical theory, especially utilitarianism. More recently, it has become a central subject for psychologists, biologists and neuroscientists. Yet it remains an elusive and deceptively difficult (...)
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    Taking Pleasure Seriously: Plutarch on the Benefits of Poetry and Philosophy.Amy Lather - 2017 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 110 (3):323-349.
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    The philosophy of aesthetic pleasure.P. Panchapagesa Sastri - 1940 - Annamalainagar: Annamalai University.
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    Philosophy Then: The Pleasure Principle.Peter Adamson - 2020 - Philosophy Now 136:41-41.
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  12. Pleasure as the standard of virtue in Hume's moral philosophy.By Julia Driver - 2004 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85 (2):173–194.
    But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes much of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind (EPM, 173).
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    The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists.James Warren - 2014 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are creatures that are able to think: to learn, understand, remember and recall, plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and, what is more, were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. There appear to be, after all, pleasures and pains associated with learning and inquiring, recollecting and anticipating. We enjoy finding something out. We are pained to discover that a belief (...)
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    For pleasure: race, experimentalism, and aesthetics.Rachel Jane Carroll - 2023 - New York, New York: New York University Press.
    For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain a global racial order and also to undo it.
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    Pleasure: A History.Lisa Shapiro (ed.) - 2018 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Usa.
    For many, the word 'pleasure' conjures associations with hedonism, indulgence, and escape from the life of the mind. However little we talk about it, though, pleasure also plays an integral role in cognitive life, in both our sensory perception of the world and our intellectual understanding. This previously important but now neglected philosophical understanding of pleasure is the focus of the essays in this volume, which challenges received views that pleasure is principally motivating of action, unanalyzable, (...)
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    The philosophy of literature : Pleasure restored.Peter Lamarque & Stein Haugom Olsen - 2004 - In Peter Kivy, The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 195–214.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Background The Way Forward.
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    The production of pleasure by stimulation of the brain: An alleged conflict between science and philosophy.Alan E. Fuchs - 1976 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 36 (June):494-505.
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    Averroes's Aesthetics. The Pleasure of Philosophy and the Pleasure of Poetry.Francesca Forte - 2015 - Quaestio 15:287-296.
    The theme of the pleasure of knowledge is central in Averroes’ aesthetical reflection of Aristotle’s Poetics, regardless whether we side with the logical or with the moral interpretation. The first one stresses the continuity between Averroes and previous commentators in his attempt to reconstruct the Poetics as an integral part of the Logic itself, whereby poetic discourse is conceived as a form of reasoning based on syllogisms. According to the latter perspective, however, pleasure is central in that poetry (...)
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    Philosophy for pleasure.Hector Hawton - 1949 - London,: Watts.
    A. E. HEATH WHEN I had finished reading the manuscript of this book I came to the reluctant conclusion that Mr. Hector Hawton, though not an academic person, ...
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    Implications of sacred pleasure for philosophy.Mara Lynn Keller - 1998 - World Futures 53 (1):57-59.
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    Pleasure in Others’ Misfortune: Three Distinct Types of Schadenfreude Found in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy.Jason D. Gray - 2020 - Journal of Value Inquiry 55 (1):175-188.
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    Epicureism or a Philosophy of Pleasure.George Colang - 2011 - Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines 2 (1):71-76.
    In this article I intent to go through the Epicurean thought and the role it plays in the concrete life of man. In this endeavour, I shall use some of Epicurus’ maxims, and also The Poem of Nature, written by Lucretius, and thought up in the spirit of Epicureism. The idea from which the entire argument grows is sustained by the pragmatic role that Epicurus cultivates in respect to life. In fact, this is the same way that his very (...) looks like. Another issue to be discussed here deals with the way in which Greek philosophy is brought into man’s factual space by Epicureism. To conclude, we shall see the limits to which Stoicism and Epicureism merge, and which is the belt separating the two conceptions. (shrink)
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    Foucaults the use of pleasure as philosophy.William James Earle - 1989 - Metaphilosophy 20 (2):169–177.
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    Pain and Pleasure - A Special Issue of Review of Psychology & Philosophy.David Bain & Michael Brady (eds.) - 2014 - Springer.
    Table of Contents: Olivier Massin, 'Pleasure and Its Contraries'; Colin Klein, 'The Penumbral Theory of Masochistic Pleasure'; Siri Leknes and Brock Bastian, 'The Benefits of Pain'; Valerie Gray Hardcastle, 'Pleasure Gone Awry? A New Conceptualization of Chronic Pain and Addiction'; Richard Gray, 'Pain, Perception and the Sensory Modalities: Revisiting the Intensive Theory'; Jonathan Cohen and Matthew Fulkerson, Affect, Rationalization, and Motivation; Murat Aydede, 'How to Unify Theories of Sensory Pleasure: An Adverbialist Proposal'; Adam Shriver, 'The Asymmetrical (...)
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    The Pleasure is Mine: The Changing Subject of Erotic Science.Laura Desmond - 2011 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 39 (1):15-39.
    Pleasure, the defining object of kāmaśāstric scholarship, is harmonious sensory experience, the product of a “good fit” between the self and the world. It comes about when one moves in a world of fitting sense objects, and one has made oneself fit to enter that world. The bulk of kāmaśāstric literature is devoted to developing, enhancing, and enacting specific bodily and sensory capabilities in order to maximize one’s ability to affect and be affected by the world. This article examines (...)
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  26. Epicurean Tranquility and the Pleasure of Philosophy.Alex R. Gillham - 2021 - Southwest Philosophy Review 37 (1):149-158.
    This paper explores how philosophy might be worthwhile on hedonic grounds for the Epicurean Sage who has achieved tranquility, reached the limit of pleasure, and thus for whom there is no further pleasure to pursue. I argue that philosophy might be worthwhile to the Epicurean Sage because it helps her maintain tranquility by preventing a painful boredom that could result without it.
     
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  27. Pleasure and aversion: Challenging the conventional dichotomy.George Ainslie - 2009 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 52 (4):357 – 377.
    Philosophy and its descendents in the behavioral sciences have traditionally divided incentives into those that are sought and those that are avoided. Positive incentives are held to be both attractive and memorable because of the direct effects of pleasure. Negative incentives are held to be unattractive but still memorable (the problem of pain) because they force unpleasant emotions on an individual by an unmotivated process, either a hardwired response (unconditioned response) or one substituted by association (conditioned response). Negative (...)
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    The Pleasure of Philosophy[REVIEW]D. G. - 1973 - Review of Metaphysics 27 (1):124-125.
    What Frankel has done in his book is to give the general reader an excellent selection of readings from ancient, modern and contemporary philosophers. In his foreword Frankel gives an overview on how philosophy "testifies to man’s capacity to take pleasure in the free play of intelligence." Philosophy in his estimation is an encounter with the human situation not measured in symbolic notation but revealed in tensions that struggle to find truth. He divides the readings into five (...)
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    Wolfsdorf Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Pp. xii + 299. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paper, £19.99, US$34.99 . ISBN: 978-0-521-14975-4. [REVIEW]John Mouracade - 2014 - The Classical Review 64 (1):56-58.
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  30. Pleasure and Power, Virtues and Vices.Dirk Baltzly, Dougal Blyth & Harold Tarrant (eds.) - 2001 - Prudentia Supplement.
     
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    The Concept Of Pleasure.David Louis Perry - 1967 - Mouton & Co..
    The question "What is pleasure?" has been a thorn in the side of philosophy since the time of Socrates. David L. Perry attempts to arrive at a satisfactory answer in the form of a definition of pleasure. In the end, he offers two definitions, turning on two radically different notions of pleasure--that of enjoyment and that of being pleased about. Perry is best when dealing with the cognitive aspects of pleasure and with pleasure as (...)
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    Ideas to save your life: philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure.Michael McGirr - 2021 - Melbourne, VIC: Text Publishing.
    This time, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, looking at the works of twenty eminent thinkers across history. The book goes back to Pythagoras and comes forward to the contemporary Australian Frank Jackson; back to Mungo Woman and forward to Martha Nussbaum, by way of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch. It is animated by two related questions: from where do we draw a sense of life's purpose, and how can philosophy make life better? It ranges widely across subjects: (...)
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  33. Pleasure and the good life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists.Gerd van Riel - 2000 - Boston: Brill.
    This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors.The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of ...
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    Review of Hawton, Philosophy for Pleasure[REVIEW]J. Hartland-Swann - 1950 - Philosophy 25 (95):349-350.
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    Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists.Paul van Riel - 2000 - Boston: Brill.
    This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' (...)
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    How Pleasures Make Life Better.Andrew H. Alwood - 2017 - Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):1-24.
    In this paper, I argue that Phenomenalists about pleasure can concede a key claim, Heterogeneity, commonly used to object to their theory. They also can then vindicate the aspirations of J. S. Mill’s doctrine of higher pleasures, while grounding their value claims in a naturalistic metaethics. But once Phenomenalists concede Heterogeneity they can no longer consistently endorse Hedonism as the correct theory of wellbeing, since they implicitly commit to recognizing distinct kinds of pleasure that are independently good-making. I (...)
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  37. Pleasure and pain: Unconditional intrinsic values.Irwin Goldstein - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (December):255-276.
    That all pleasure is good and all pain bad in itself is an eternally true ethical principle. The common claim that some pleasure is not good, or some pain not bad, is mistaken. Strict particularism (ethical decisions must be made case by case; there are no sound universal normative principles) and relativism (all good and bad are relative to society) are among the ethical theories we may refute through an appeal to pleasure and pain. Daniel Dennett, Philippa (...)
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  38. On pleasure, emotion, and striving.Karl Duncker - 1940 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1 (June):391-430.
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    Living for Pleasure - An Epicurean Guide to Life.Emily A. Austin - 2022 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    In Living for Pleasure, philosopher Emily Austin offers a lively, jargon-free tour of Epicurean strategies for diminishing anxiety, achieving satisfaction, and relishing joys.
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    The existential pleasures of engineering.Samuel C. Florman - 1994 - New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
    Humans have always sought to change their environment—building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are also works of art to be admired. In this second edition of his popular Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Samuel Florman explores how engineers think and feel about their profession. A deeply insightful and refreshingly unique text, this book corrects the myth that engineering is cold and passionless. Indeed, Florman celebrates engineering (...)
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  41. Pleasure and Its Contraries.Olivier Massin - 2014 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 5 (1):15-40.
    What is the contrary of pleasure? “Pain” is one common answer. This paper argues that pleasure instead has two natural contraries: unpleasure and hedonic indifference. This view is defended by drawing attention to two often-neglected concepts: the formal relation of polar opposition and the psychological state of hedonic indifference. The existence of mixed feelings, it is argued, does not threaten the contrariety of pleasure and unpleasure.
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    Greek Science and Philosophy: Ten Recent Books in ReviewThe Physical World of the Greeks.The Philosophy of Plato.Der Dialog "Kratylos" im Rahmen der Platonischen Sprach- und Erkenntnisphilosophie.Protagoras.The Evaluation of Pleasure in Plato's Ethics.Plato's Philosophy of Mathematics.Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics.Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's `Timaeus'.Aristotelesstudien: Philologische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Aristotelischen Ethik.Ronald B. Levinson - 1957 - Journal of Philosophy 54 (25):813-822.
  43. Socrates, pleasure, and value.George Rudebusch - 1999 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this study, George Rudebusch addresses whether Socrates was a hedonist--whether he believed pleasure to be the good. In attempting to locate Socrates' position on hedonism, Rudebusch examines the passages in Plato's early dialogues that are the most disputed on the topic. He maintains that Socrates identifies pleasant activity with virtuous activity, describing Socrates' hedonism as one of activity, not sensation. This analysis allows for Socrates to find both virtue and pleasure to be the good, thus solving the (...)
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  44. Unconscious Pleasure as Dispositional Pleasure.James Fanciullo - 2024 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (4):999-1013.
    A good deal of recent debate over the nature of pleasure and pain has surrounded the alleged phenomenon of unconscious sensory pleasure and pain, or pleasures and pains whose subjects are entirely unaware of them while experiencing them. According to Ben Bramble, these putative pleasures and pains present a problem for attitudinal theories of pleasure and pain, since these theories claim that what makes something a sensory pleasure or pain is that one has a special sort (...)
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    Measurement, pleasure, and practical science in Plato's Protagoras.Henry S. Richardson - 1990 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1):7-32.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Measurement, Pleasure, and Practical Science in Plato's Protagoras HENRY S. RICHARDSON 1. INTRODUCTION TOWARDS THE END OF THE PROTAGORAS Socrates suggests that the "salvation of our life" depends upon applying to pleasures and pains a science of measurement (metr$tik~techn~).Whether Plato intended to portray Socrates as putting forward sincerely the form of hedonism that makes these pleasures and pains relevant has been the subject of a detailed and probably (...)
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    Pleasure and Happiness.Jean Austin - 1968 - Philosophy 43 (163):51 - 62.
    First a word about my title: ‘Happiness’ is ground upon which so many angels have feared to tread that it seemed not inappropriate for me to rush in. It is a subject to which we all do give thought, not only with the force majeure of professional philosophising, but in our personal lives; however, in trying to sort the subject out a little, and it is one about which both our literature and our thinking are notoriously muddled, I fear I (...)
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  47. Pleasure, displeasure, and representation.Timothy Schroeder - 2001 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (4):507-530.
    The object of the present work is to rectify the neglect that pleasure and displeasure have been suffering from in the philosophy of mind, and to give an account of pleasure and displeasure which reveals a striking degree of unity and theoretical tractabiliy underlying the diverse phenomena: a representationalist account.
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  48. Pleasure is Goodness; Morality is Universal.Neil Sinhababu - 2024 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 27 (5):725-741.
    This paper presents the Universality Argument that pleasure is goodness. The first premise defines goodness as what should please all. The second premise reduces 'should' to perceptual accuracy. The third premise invokes a universal standard of accuracy: qualitative identity. Since the pleasure of all is accurate solely about pleasure, pleasure is goodness, or universal moral value. The argument proceeds from a moral sense theory that analyzes moral concepts as concerned with what all should hope for, feel (...)
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    Pleasure and Purpose in Kant’s Theory of Taste.Alexander Rueger - 2018 - Kant Studien 109 (1):101-123.
    In the Critique of Judgment Kant repeatedly points out that it is only the pleasure of taste that reveals to us the need to introduce a third faculty of the mind with its own a priori principle. In order to elucidate this claim I discuss two general principles about pleasure that Kant presents, the transcendental definition of pleasure from § 10 and the principle from the Introduction that connects pleasure with the achievement of an aim. Precursors (...)
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    Does pleasure have intrinsic value?Timothy E. Taylor - 2010 - Journal of Value Inquiry 44 (3):313-319.
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