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The Pursuit Of Pleasure

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Author : Lionel Tiger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12

The Pursuit Of Pleasure written by Lionel Tiger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Social Science categories.

Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure.

Pleasure And Pain

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Author : Paul Bousfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13

Pleasure And Pain written by Paul Bousfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Medical categories.

This is Volume II of ten in the Physiological Psychology series. First published in 1926, this study looks at the areas of pain and pleasure in relation to tension, both unconscious and not, love and hate, a summary of present theories and Freud's theory's on masochism, the pleasure principle and the death instinct in relation to the study's hypothesis.

Pleasure In English For Third Fourth Forms New Zealand

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Author : John Roy Charles Yglesias
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966

Pleasure In English For Third Fourth Forms New Zealand written by John Roy Charles Yglesias and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.

The Discipline Of Pleasure

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Author : James Bampfield
language : en
Publisher: Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium
Release Date : 2015-04-16

The Discipline Of Pleasure written by James Bampfield and has been published by Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-16 with Family & Relationships categories.

Chocolate... sex... volunteer work... sport... art... spiritual rapture You cannot turn off the pleasure impulse. Better to join it - with discipline. In an eclectic mix of personal anecdote, psychological insight and philosophical musings, James Bampfield shines a new light on the role of pleasure in life. The whole spectrum of pleasure is explored and given meaning through his typology of ego pleasure, simple pleasure, soul pleasure and spirit pleasure. His suggestion is that we move away from a rigid truth perspective - characterized either by an over-focus on duty and obligation or on suffering and sacrifice - and prioritize enjoyment. Bouncing off thinkers such as Epicurus and Freud and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and the Dalai Lama, the author argues that pleasure offers a feminine balance to the exaggerated masculine pursuit of truth which has brought the world as much misery as 'progress'. As Eckhart Tolle did in The Power of Now, Bampfield introduces us to a new way of thinking about happiness, one that will lead us to greater personal fulfilment and, he believes, a more peaceful society.

Formations Of Pleasure

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1983-01-01

Formations Of Pleasure written by and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with Social Science categories.

A collection of essays examines the reasons that people find pleasure in literature, art, films, sex, radio programs, carnivals, and films

Pleasure And The Good Life

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Author : Fred Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2004-03-25

Pleasure And The Good Life written by Fred Feldman and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-25 with Philosophy categories.

Fred Feldman's fascinating new book sets out to defend hedonism as a theory about the Good Life. He tries to show that, when carefully and charitably interpreted, certain forms of hedonism yield plausible evaluations of human lives. Feldman begins by explaining what we mean when we ask what the Good Life is. He argues that this should not be taken to be a question about the morally good life or about the beneficial life. Rather, the question concerns the general features of the life that is good in itself for the one who lives it. Hedonism says (roughly) that the Good Life is the pleasant life. After showing that the usual formulations of hedonism are often confused or incoherent, Feldman presents a simple, clear, coherent form of sensory hedonism that provides a starting point for discussion. He then considers a webalogue of classic objections to hedonism, coming from sources as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Brentano, Ross, Moore, Rawls, Kagan, Nozick, Brandt, and others. One of Feldman's central themes is that there is an important distinction between the forms of hedonism that emphasize sensory pleasure and those that emphasize attitudinal pleasure. Feldman formulates several kinds of hedonism based on the idea that attitudinal pleasure is the Good. He claims that attitudinal forms of hedonism - which have often been ignored in the literature — are worthy of more careful attention. Another main theme of the book is the plasticity of hedonism. Hedonism comes in many forms. Attitudinal hedonism is especially receptive to variations and modifications. Feldman illustrates this plasticity by formulating several variants of attitudinal hedonism and showing how they evade some of the objections. He also shows how it is possible to develop forms of hedonism that are equivalent to the allegedly anti-hedonistic theory of G. E. Moore, and the Aristotelian theory according to which the Good Life is the life of virtue, or flourishing. He also formulates hedonisms relevantly like the ones defended by Aristippus and Mill. Feldman argues that a carefully developed form of attitudinal hedonism is not refuted by objections concerning 'the shape of a life'. He also defends the claim that all of the alleged forms of hedonism discussed in the book genuinely deserve to be called 'hedonism'. Finally, after dealing with the last of the objections, he gives a sketch of his hedonistic vision of the Good Life.

Complex Pleasure

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Author : Stanley Corngold
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1998

Complex Pleasure written by Stanley Corngold and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.

Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writersLessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the following ideas: that where there is literature there is complex pleasure; that this pleasure is complex because it involves the impression of a disclosure; that this thought is foremost in the minds of a number of canonical writers; that important literary works in the German traditionfiction, poetry, critiquecan be illuminated through their treatment of literary feeling; and, finally, that the conceptual terms for these forms of feeling continually vary. The types of feeling treated in Complex Pleasure include wit (the startling perception of likeness) and the disinterested pleasure of aesthetic judgment; Hölderlins swift conceptual grasp, in which the tempo of the process of thought is stressed; artistic imagination, mood, sadistic enjoyment, rapturous distraction, homonymic dissonance, and courage as a mode of literary experience. At the same time, through the deftness, range, and surprise of its execution, the book itself conveys complex pleasure. The reader will also find fascinating, hitherto untranslated material by Nietzsche (On Moods) and Kafka (important sections from his journals and from his unfinished novel The Boy Who Sank Out of Sight).

The Joy Of Religion

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Author : Ariel Glucklich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-09

The Joy Of Religion written by Ariel Glucklich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Psychology categories.

Using a psychological and historical approach, the book describes the ways that religions deepen and prolong feelings of wellbeing.

Pleasure In English

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Author : John Roy Charles Yglesias
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966

Pleasure In English written by John Roy Charles Yglesias and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.