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The Place of Flawed Pleasures in a Good Life. A Discussion of Plato’s Philebus

Plato, 2021
The Philebus describes the “good” that enables human eudaimonia as a “mixture” in which cognitive states have to be combined with certain types of pleasure.
Jan Szaif
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Pleasure and Addiction [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013
What is the role and value of pleasure in addiction? Foddy and Savulescu (1) have claimed that substance use is just pleasure-oriented behavior. They describe addiction as "strong appetites toward pleasure" and argue that addicts suffer in significant part because of strong social and moral disapproval of lives dominated by pleasure seeking.
Matthews, Stephen, Kennett, Jeanette, Snoek, Anke   +2 more
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Carnal pleasures

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020
Of all the human emotions, pleasures are most tightly intertwined with the body. Pleasures including sex, feeding and social touch originate from somatosensory and gustatory processing, and pleasant emotions also markedly influence bodily states tied to the reproductive and digestive system to the skeletomuscular and endocrine systems.
Lauri Nummenmaa, Lotte Frederike van Dillen   +1 more
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Sexual Dysfunction in Chronically Medicated Male Inpatients With Schizophrenia: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Manifestations, and Response to Sexual Arousal

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundSexual dysfunction is a common symptom in patients with schizophrenia, especially in chronically medicated patients. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and emotional response to sexual arousal in male patients with ...
Dianying Liu, Shaohua Liu, Meihong Xiu, Hongdong Deng, Huiyun Guo, Wanglin Liu, Delong Zhang, Zhongzhen Mao, Dan Huang, Donghua Huang, Qiumei Miao, Lijuan Qiu, Ning Olivia Zhao, Hanjing Emily Wu, Xiangyang Zhang, Xiangyang Zhang   +15 more
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Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues [PDF]

, 2000
The concept of pleasure has emerged as a multi-faceted social and cultural phenomenon in studies of media audiences since the 1980s. In these studies different forms of pleasure have been identified as explaining audience activity and commitment.
Abercrombie, Nicholas, Alasuutari, Pertti, Ang, Ien, Barbara O’Connor, Barthes, Roland, Benhabib, Seyla, Brown, Mary Ellen, Brunsdon, Charlotte, Chodorow, Nancy, Connor, Steven, Corner, John, Corner, John, Corrigan, Philip, Dahlgren, Peter, Dyer, Richard, Dyer, Richard, Elisabeth Klaus, Fiske, John, Fiske, John, Fiske, John, Fiske, John, Fraser, Nancy, Frith, Simon, Gallagher, Margaret, Geraghty, Christine, Geraghty, Christine, Grossberg, Lawrence, Hall, Stuart, Hamm, Ingrid, Hermes, Joke, Hermes, Joke, Hobson, Dorothy, Jameson, Frederic, Koch, Tom, Langer, John, Langer, John, Lefebvre, Henri, Lewis, Justin, Livingstone, Sonia M., Livingstone, Sonia M., Lovell, Terry, Mercer, Colin, Modleski, Tania, Morley, David, Morley, David, Morley, David, Morley, David, Nightingale, Virginia, Nochimson, Martha, O’Connor, Barbara, Penley, Constance, Radway, Janice A., Schmitz, Manfred, Seiter, Ellen, Van Zoonen, Liesbet, Williams, Raymond   +55 more
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The Effects of Two Swimming Learning Programs on Children’s Psychophysiological Profile

Proceedings, 2019
AIM: Salivary cortisol has been used in research for studying possible alterations in human mood after different types of exercise. Exercise intensity plays an important role in mood levels and salivary cortisol concentration.
Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Athanasios Kabasakalis, Vasilis Barkoukis, Vasilis Mougios, Dimitris Loupos   +4 more
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Pleasure as self-discovery [PDF]

, 2012
This paper uses readings of two classic autobiographies, Edmund Gosse’s Father & Son and John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography, to develop a distinctive answer to an old and central question in value theory: What role is played by pleasure in the most ...
Clark, Samuel
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Mice Hemizygous for a Pathogenic Mitofusin-2 Allele Exhibit Hind Limb/Foot Gait Deficits and Phenotypic Perturbations in Nerve and Muscle. [PDF]

, 2016
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A (CMT2A), the most common axonal form of hereditary sensory motor neuropathy, is caused by mutations of mitofusin-2 (MFN2). Mitofusin-2 is a GTPase required for fusion of mitochondrial outer membranes, repair of damaged
Bannerman, Peter, Burns, Travis, Miers, Laird, Pleasure, David, Xu, Jie   +4 more
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Ownership, Enjoyment, Arousal Troubles, and Robust Education: Pleasure in LGBTQ+ Alt-Sex Members’ Responses to Consent Violations

Sexes, 2022
Background: Alt-sex practitioners are a diverse group with diverse unconventional sexual behaviors including consensual non-monogamy (CNM), kink, fetishism, and bondage/discipline dominance/submission, sadomasochism (BDSM).
Jessamyn Bowling, Susan Wright, Casey Mesaeh, J. Kevin Benson, Russell Stambaugh   +4 more
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Aesthetic value: beauty, ugliness and incoherence [PDF]

, 1997
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. Thus, quite naturally following Socrates' strategy in The Meno, we are tempted to generalize from our ...
Kieran, M.
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