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The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1979
In response to a stimulus, a sensation is tridimensional: qualitative, quantitative, and affective. The affective part of sensation, pleasure or displeasure, depends on the qualities of the stimulus. Within a narrow range of intensity, chemical, thermal, and mechanical stimuli are able to arouse pleasure.
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In response to a stimulus, a sensation is tridimensional: qualitative, quantitative, and affective. The affective part of sensation, pleasure or displeasure, depends on the qualities of the stimulus. Within a narrow range of intensity, chemical, thermal, and mechanical stimuli are able to arouse pleasure.
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Prairie Schooner
Abstract This chapter argues that pleasure is a cognitive response to sortal quality. It first categorizes cases of pleasure, distinguishing taking pleasure in a sensation or activity from being pleased by a state of affairs. It argues that all pleasure requires two beliefs, one about the obtaining or occurring of what one is taking ...
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Abstract This chapter argues that pleasure is a cognitive response to sortal quality. It first categorizes cases of pleasure, distinguishing taking pleasure in a sensation or activity from being pleased by a state of affairs. It argues that all pleasure requires two beliefs, one about the obtaining or occurring of what one is taking ...
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Introduction: Travelling Pleasure — Reading Pleasure
2000People have travelled since time immemorial and for many reasons; accounts of travel — or travelogues1 — have thus been produced in various cultural contexts.2 The present book is intended to provide an introduction to English travel writing, with its main forms and traditions.
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1994
Abstract No one understands better than Aristotle how deeply the desire for pleasure is rooted in human and animal nature. He must show that while pleasure can threaten morality, it also lies at the heart of human rational perfection. His complex reactions to neutralism (“The good is beyond pleasure and pain”), and to the hedonism of ...
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Abstract No one understands better than Aristotle how deeply the desire for pleasure is rooted in human and animal nature. He must show that while pleasure can threaten morality, it also lies at the heart of human rational perfection. His complex reactions to neutralism (“The good is beyond pleasure and pain”), and to the hedonism of ...
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2001
Abstract Moderns assume that good is repetitious and evil is innovative, but for Lewis, the opposite is true. His theory of pleasure forms the basis of his relational view of life and for several other interests: reading, epistemology, and joy.
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Abstract Moderns assume that good is repetitious and evil is innovative, but for Lewis, the opposite is true. His theory of pleasure forms the basis of his relational view of life and for several other interests: reading, epistemology, and joy.
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2007
Abstract So much campaigning, so many years of complaining. Sometimes it was easy to forget that for most listeners, most of the time, the pleasures to be gained from Radio Four outweighed all the irritations. They did, after all, stick with it. Sometimes they expressed their utter devotion to it. Even for producers who could see nothing
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Abstract So much campaigning, so many years of complaining. Sometimes it was easy to forget that for most listeners, most of the time, the pleasures to be gained from Radio Four outweighed all the irritations. They did, after all, stick with it. Sometimes they expressed their utter devotion to it. Even for producers who could see nothing
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From struggle for pleasure to pleasure in struggling: psychoanalytic ideas on pleasure
The American Journal of PsychoanalysisPleasure in the human being has always been a major theme, associated with pain, excess and needs, determining many moral dilemmas, including the ethics of medical, social, and educational intervention. The rhythmic movement between the multiple pleasurable experiences, the effort to retain them or avoid different pains present themselves in the mental
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