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Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250025389
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Author : Fred Feldman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191532696
Fred Feldman's fascinating new book sets out to defend hedonism as a theory about the Good Life. He tries to show that, when carefully and charitably interpreted, certain forms of hedonism yield plausible evaluations of human lives. Feldman begins by explaining what we mean when we ask what the Good Life is. He argues that this should not be taken to be a question about the morally good life or about the beneficial life. Rather, the question concerns the general features of the life that is good in itself for the one who lives it. Hedonism says (roughly) that the Good Life is the pleasant life. After showing that the usual formulations of hedonism are often confused or incoherent, Feldman presents a simple, clear, coherent form of sensory hedonism that provides a starting point for discussion. He then considers a webalogue of classic objections to hedonism, coming from sources as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Brentano, Ross, Moore, Rawls, Kagan, Nozick, Brandt, and others. One of Feldman's central themes is that there is an important distinction between the forms of hedonism that emphasize sensory pleasure and those that emphasize attitudinal pleasure. Feldman formulates several kinds of hedonism based on the idea that attitudinal pleasure is the Good. He claims that attitudinal forms of hedonism - which have often been ignored in the literature — are worthy of more careful attention. Another main theme of the book is the plasticity of hedonism. Hedonism comes in many forms. Attitudinal hedonism is especially receptive to variations and modifications. Feldman illustrates this plasticity by formulating several variants of attitudinal hedonism and showing how they evade some of the objections. He also shows how it is possible to develop forms of hedonism that are equivalent to the allegedly anti-hedonistic theory of G. E. Moore, and the Aristotelian theory according to which the Good Life is the life of virtue, or flourishing. He also formulates hedonisms relevantly like the ones defended by Aristippus and Mill. Feldman argues that a carefully developed form of attitudinal hedonism is not refuted by objections concerning 'the shape of a life'. He also defends the claim that all of the alleged forms of hedonism discussed in the book genuinely deserve to be called 'hedonism'. Finally, after dealing with the last of the objections, he gives a sketch of his hedonistic vision of the Good Life.
Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250128591
Sinful pleasure and forbidden desire rule in the second part of #1 bestselling author Lora Leigh's novel Only Pleasure, previously published in trade paperback and now exclusively in ebook format. Kia is a dream Chase has not allowed himself to entertain. Now that he has her, it's her heart he's after and he's determined to win it, no matter the cost. And even though they both agreed that it would only be for pleasure, a feeling deeper than all-consuming lust and illicit pleasure has taken hold of them...
Author : David Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761307
An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.
Author : R. Huebert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503168
Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
Author : Maggie Cox
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426837791
Billionaire Nikolai Golitsyn was on the verge of seducing Ellie. But then tragedy struck, and she was blamed for the death of his brother. The last place he wanted her was in his bed. Confused and humiliated, Ellie fled. Five years later, Nikolai's orphaned niece needs a mother, and he's tracked down Ellie—he wants her to assume the role. But this time around Nikolai intends to enjoy all the delights he denied himself before: he'll give Ellie no choice but to become his unwillingly wedded wife!
Author : Jeremy Jernigan
Publisher : Worthy Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781617956898
Jeremy Jernigan, pastor of the twelve-thousand member Central Christian Church in Phoenix, Arizona, shows readers how to redeem pleasure from a culture that abuses it in ways God never intended.
Author : Paul van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004321106
This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus. The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.
Author : George Rudebusch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195159616
The author addresses the question of whether Socrates was a hedonist - that is, if he believed that the good is, at bottom a matter of pleasure.
Author : Douglas J. Lisle,Alan Goldhamer
Publisher : Book Publishing Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781570679971
The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses, and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality. A wake-up call to even the most health conscious people, The Pleasure Trap boldy challenges conventional wisdom about sickness and unhappiness in today's contemporary culture, and offers groundbreaking solutions for achieving change. Authors Douglas Lisel, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C., provide a fascinating new perspective on how modern life can turn so many smart, savvy people into the unwitting saboteurs of their own well-being. Inspired by stunning original research, comprehensive clinical studies, and their successes with thousands of patients, the authors construct a new paradigm for the psychology of health, offering fresh hope for anyone stuck in a self-destructive rut. Integrating principals of evolutionary biology with trailblazing, proactive strategies for well
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015065481775
Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250128584
Sinful pleasure and forbidden desire rule in the first part of #1 bestselling author Lora Leigh's novel Only Pleasure, previously published in trade paperback and now exclusively in ebook format. . Since Chase Falladay came to her rescue two years ago, Kia Stanton has never been able to forget the powerful man or the kind of life he leads. So two years later when she runs into Chase and his friend, Khalid, and leaves with them that night, she knows exactly where it is all heading. However, little prepares her for the smoldering pleasure she feels in the arms of two men. After years of holding back, Kia is finally able to find freedom...as Chase and Khalid possess her body with forbidden sensations...
Author : Dana Schwartz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478970385
A"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping--and sometimes failing--to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer.
Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524749149
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Ethics
ISBN : NYPL:33433067226096