Pleasure: a history
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 act…
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- Full title :Pleasure : a history / edited by Lisa Shapiro.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 294 pages, 4 unnumbered pages pages of plates ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190225117, 0190225114, 9780190225100, 0190225106
- oclc:on1019738220
- LC Classification:B105.H36
- Dewey Decimal:128/.4
Table of Contents
Two platonic criticisms of pleasure / Emily Fletcher -- Aristotle on the heterogeneity of pleasure / Matthew Strohl -- This so sullied flesh: Islamic approaches to human pleasures / Sajjad Rizvi -- Reflection: engraving pleasure in philosophy teaching aids / Susanna Berger -- Pleasure in later medieval Latin philosophy: the case of Thomas Aquinas / Martin Pickavé -- Malebranche on pleasure and awareness in sensory perception / Lisa Shapiro -- Pleasures, pains, and sensible qualities in Berkeley's philosophy / Melissa Frankel -- Rationally agential pleasure?: a Kantian proposal / Keren Gorodeisky -- Reflection: musical pleasure, difficult music / Roger Matthew Grant -- John Stuart Mill: "pleasure in the laws of psychology and the principle of morals / Dominique Kuenzle -- Reflection: pleasure experience in schizophrenia / Ann M. Kring and Amy H. Sanchez -- A contemporary account of sensory pleasure / Murat Aydede.
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