Pleasure: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts) 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0190225130
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780190882495
• Author: Lisa Shapiro

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. Like other books in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, it traces the development of the focal idea from ancient times through the 20th century. The essays highlight points of departure for new lines of inquiry rather than attempting to provide a full picture of how the idea of pleasure has been explored in philosophy.

Table contents:

1 Introduction

2 Two Platonic Criticisms of Pleasure

3 Aristotle on the Heterogeneity of Pleasure

4 This So Sullied Flesh? Islamic Approaches to Human Pleasures

5 Pleasure in Later Medieval Latin Philosophy: The Case of Thomas Aquinas

6 Malebranche on Pleasure and Awareness in Sensory Perception

7 Pleasures, Pains, and Sensible Qualities in Berkeley’s Philosophy

8 Rationally Agential Pleasure? A Kantian Proposal

Reflection: Musical Pleasure, Difficult Music

9 John Stuart Mill: “Pleasure” in the Laws of Psychology and the Principle of Morals

Reflection: Pleasure Experience in Schizophrenia

10 A Contemporary Account of Sensory Pleasure

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