The Philosophy of Pleasure
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, "The Philosophy of Pleasure"
English | ISBN: 1138093114 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 500 KB
English | ISBN: 1138093114 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 500 KB
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:
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