The Philosophy Of Pleasure
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The Philosophy Of Pleasure
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Author : Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-06-03
The Philosophy Of Pleasure written by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-03 with Philosophy categories.
The experience of pleasure, alongside pain, is a primary element of human life. It rules our instincts and desires for food, sex and avoiding 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 concept. What is pleasure? How does it differ from happiness? Should we value pleasure? Should we value only pleasure? Which theories of pleasure are most plausible? In this rigorous and comprehensive introduction to the topic, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek unpacks and assesses these questions and many more, including: The history of pleasure from ancient China, India and Greece to modern times Pleasure, sensation, feeling and consciousness What scientific research reveals about the nature of pleasure – can pleasure be measured scientifically? "Higher" and "lower" pleasures The relation between happiness and pleasure Pleasure and pain Pleasure and animals Pleasure as an ultimate good and the relation between pleasure and rationality. The Philosophy of Pleasure: An Introduction is essential reading for students of ethics and political philosophy, and also suitable for those studying related disciplines such as psychology, politics and sociology.
The Pleasure Principle Epicureanism A Philosophy For Modern Living
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Author : Catherine Wilson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-05-02
The Pleasure Principle Epicureanism A Philosophy For Modern Living written by Catherine Wilson and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
In our troubled world, looking back to ancient wisdom can shed light on fresh solutions.
The Birth Of Hedonism
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Author : Kurt Lampe
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-09
The Birth Of Hedonism written by Kurt Lampe and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Philosophy categories.
According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the Cyrenaics pursued a way of life in which moments of pleasure, particularly bodily pleasure, held the highest value. In The Birth of Hedonism, Kurt Lampe provides the most comprehensive account in any language of Cyrenaic ideas and behavior, revolutionizing the understanding of this neglected but important school of philosophy. The Birth of Hedonism thoroughly and sympathetically reconstructs the doctrines and practices of the Cyrenaics, who were active between the fourth and third centuries BCE. The book examines not only Aristippus and the mainstream Cyrenaics, but also Hegesias, Anniceris, and Theodorus. Contrary to recent scholarship, the book shows that the Cyrenaics, despite giving primary value to discrete pleasurable experiences, accepted the dominant Greek philosophical belief that life-long happiness and the virtues that sustain it are the principal concerns of ethics. The book also offers the first in-depth effort to understand Theodorus's atheism and Hegesias's pessimism, both of which are extremely unusual in ancient Greek philosophy and which raise the interesting question of hedonism's relationship to pessimism and atheism. Finally, the book explores the "new Cyrenaicism" of the nineteenth-century writer and classicist Walter Pater, who drew out the enduring philosophical interest of Cyrenaic hedonism more than any other modern thinker.
The Pleasures Of Reason In Plato Aristotle And The Hellenistic Hedonists
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Author : James Warren
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-27
The Pleasures Of Reason In Plato Aristotle And The Hellenistic Hedonists written by James Warren 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 2014-11-27 with Education categories.
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Philosophy For Pleasure
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Author : Hector Hawton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Philosophy For Pleasure written by Hector Hawton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Philosophy categories.
Pleasure In Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Author : David Wolfsdorf
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Pleasure In Ancient Greek Philosophy written by David Wolfsdorf 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 2013 with History categories.
An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.
Pleasure
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Author : Lisa Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
Pleasure written by Lisa Shapiro and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Pleasure categories.
Pleasure
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Author : Lisa Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Pleasure written by Lisa Shapiro and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Philosophy categories.
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, and caused, rather than responsive to reason. Like other books in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, it traces the development of the focal idea from ancient times through the 20th century. The essays highlight points of departure for new lines of inquiry rather than attempting to provide a full picture of how the idea of pleasure has been explored in philosophy. The volume begins by showing how Plato, Aristotle, early Islamic philosophers, and philosophers in the Medieval Latin tradition, such as Aquinas, honed in on the challenge of unifying the variety of pleasures so that they fall under one concept. In the early modern period, philosophers shifted from understanding the logic of pleasure to treating pleasure as a mental state. As the studies of Malebranche, Berkeley and Kant show, the central problem becomes understanding the relation of pleasure to other sensory experiences, and the role of pleasure in human cognition and knowledge. Short interdisciplinary reflections interspersed between essays focus on art of 16th and 17th century textbooks and the difficult music of composers like Bach, which demonstrate translation of these concerns to cultural production in the period. As the essay on Mill shows, the 19th century development of scientific psychology narrowed the definition of pleasure, and so its philosophical focus. Contemporary accounts of pleasure, however, in both philosophy and psychology, are now recognizing the limitations of this narrow focus, and are once again recognizing the complexity of pleasure and its role in human life.
Pleasure Mind And Soul
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Author : W. C. W. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-01-24
Pleasure Mind And Soul written by W. C. W. Taylor and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-24 with Philosophy categories.
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 (including the Epicureans), showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists. Pleasure, Mind, and Soul provides a fascinating survey of a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, and which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today.
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
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Author : Tannsjo Torbjorn Tannsjo
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-08
Hedonistic Utilitarianism written by Tannsjo Torbjorn Tannsjo and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with PHILOSOPHY categories.
This volume presents a comprehensive statement in defense of the doctrine known as classical, hedonistic utilitarianism. It is presented as a viable alternative in the search for a moral theory and the claim is defended that we need such a theory. The book offers a distinctive approach and some quite controversial conclusions. Torbjorn Tannsjo challenges the assumption that hedonistic utilitarianism is at variance with common sense morality particularly as viewed through the perspective of the modern feminist moral critique.