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- "Pleasure" refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. The term is primarily used in association with sensory pleasures like the enjoyment of food or sex.
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Jul 6, 2021 · Key points. Pleasure is not just a sensation or a thought but a way of experiencing the sensory world. Pleasure operates through a cycle of three stages: wanting, liking, and learning....
Sep 4, 2018 · Far from being a mere sensorial representation, pleasure can on the contrary constitute a complex psychic experience entailing various processes such as memory, motivation, homoeostasis, and, in some occurrences, pain.
- Lorenzo Moccia, Marianna Mazza, Marco Di Nicola, Luigi Janiri
- 2018
Mar 12, 2022 · Key points. Pleasure is a quality inherent in the essence of all objects. It comes from the ananda quality. Vedic philosophy says that everything is essentially sat-chit-ananda or...
Nov 23, 2005 · 1. A Feature of Momentary Experience. 1.1 Pleasure as a Simple but Powerful Feeling. 1.2 Rejections of the Simple Picture. 1.3 More Modest Roles for Experience. 2. Finding Unity in Heterogeneity. 2.1 Seeking a Universal Account. 2.2 Classical Accounts: Functional Unity with Difference.
- Abstract and Qualitative Hedonism
- Crisp’s Radical Qualitative Hedonism
- Ben Bramble and Novelty
- Feldman’s Desert-Adjusted Hedonism
- Bullet-Biting
As a result of the Philosophy of Swine objection, most contemporary formulations of hedonism have followed Mill in deviating from quantitative hedonism. If, besides the quantity of pleasure, certain features of pleasure are also valuable, we can divert the conclusion that Porky’s life is better than that of most, and (perhaps) that Haydn’s life is ...
An alternative solution to the philosophy of swine problem to hedonism is presented by Roger Crisp, who, while sympathetic to Mill’s solution, argues that it ultimately fails, because, “(…) it is not clear why, if nobility can increase enjoyableness and hence value, it cannot be a good-making property in its own right, nor why an experience could n...
A different recent defense of hedonism, due to Bramble (2016a), does not rely on the quality/quantity distinction, but does introduce a valuation of pleasure that is non-proportional to the quantity of pleasure itself. Bramble argues that the wellbeing value of pleasure is not limited to its degree (how pleasurable an experience is), but that the n...
A final response to consider is due to Fred Feldman, from whom the formulation of the philosophy of swine problem in the form of Porky came. Feldman’s own response is that hedonism (in his case attitudinal hedonism) can easily be amended to deal with such examples by counting the pleasure taken in worthy objects as being more valuable than the plea...
Before drawing the conclusion that hedonism has no satisfactory response to the philosophy of swine problem, we should consider one last response: biting the bullet. Maybe simple pleasures are of comparable value to complex pleasures, Porky’s life perfectly good for him, and the oyster’s life better than Haydn’s if sufficiently long. Perhaps our in...
- Willem van der Deijl, Willem van der Deijl
- willem.van.der.deijl@umontreal.ca
- 2019
The available evidence suggests that brain mechanisms involved in fundamental pleasures (food and sexual pleasures) overlap with those for higher-order pleasures (for example, monetary, artistic, musical, altruistic, and transcendent pleasures) ( Kringelbach 2010 ).
May 6, 2015 · Abstract. Pleasure is mediated by well-developed mesocorticolimbic circuitry, and serves adaptive functions. In affective disorders anhedonia (lack of pleasure) or dysphoria (negative affect) can result from breakdowns of that hedonic system.
