The Seven Sources Of Pleasure In Life

Author : Luciano L'Abate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313395802

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The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life by Luciano L'Abate Pdf

This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis. All of us look for happiness, well-being, and positivity throughout our lives, but for most people these goals are abstract and the processes established to achieve them ambiguous. The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life: Making Way for the Upside in the Midst of Modern Demands focuses attention upon the concrete, specific, and everyday sources of pleasure that are within the grasp of almost everyone. Prolific author Luciano L'Abate, PhD, ABEPP, examines at all kinds of pleasures, investigating where we find them, why they appeal to us, and what benefits they provide in terms of both mental and physical health. He explains how to increase our sensitivity to everyday opportunities for pleasure, and then gives tangible techniques to focus upon these moments in order to fully experience them. The author employs personal memories from his childhood in Italy, more recent stories from his travels abroad, and the findings of most recent scientific research on the benefits of pleasure-seeking to further illustrate his points.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : North American review and miscellaneous journal
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007064475

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The North American Review by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Louisa May Alcott Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Louisa May Alcott Pdf

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is universally recognized as the greatest and most popular story-teller for children in her generation. She has known the way to the hearts of young people, not only in her own class, or even country, but in every condition of life, and in many foreign lands. Plato says, "Beware of those who teach fables to children;" and it is impossible to estimate the influence which the popular writer of fiction has over the audience he wins to listen to his tales.

Author : Daniel Russell,Daniel S. Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199282845

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Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life by Daniel Russell,Daniel S. Russell Pdf

Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life as a whole, bringing aboutgoodness in all areas of one's life, as a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the skill of living are, in the first instance, not things like money or health, but one's attitudes, emotions, and desires where things like money and health are concerned. Plato recognizes thatthese 'materials' of the psyche are inchoate, ethically speaking, and in need of direction from wisdom. Among them is pleasure, which Plato treats not as a sensation but as an attitude with which one ascribes value to its object. However, Plato also views pleasure, once shaped and directed by wisdom, as a crucial part of a virtuous character as a whole. Consequently, Plato rejects all forms of hedonism, which allows happiness to be determined by a part of the psyche that does not direct one'slife but is among the materials to be directed. At the same time, Plato is also able to hold both that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and that pleasure is necessary for happiness, not as an addition to one's virtue, but as a constituent of one's whole virtuous character itself. Plato thereforeoffers an illuminating role for pleasure in ethics and psychology, one to which we may be unaccustomed: pleasure emerges not as a sensation or even a mode of activity, but as an attitude - one of the ways in which we construe our world - and as such, a central part of every character.

Author : Thaddeus Metz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199599318

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Meaning in Life by Thaddeus Metz Pdf

What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz argues that no existing theory does full justice to the key requirements of morality, enquiry, and creativity. He offers a new answer to the question: meaning in life is a matter of intelligence contoured toward fundamental conditions of human existence.

Author : Fred Feldman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191532696

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Pleasure and the Good Life by Fred Feldman Pdf

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 : Stephen Arterburn,David Stoop
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 1793 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781496427564

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NLT Life Recovery Bible, Second Edition, Large Print by Stephen Arterburn,David Stoop Pdf

The Life Recovery Bible 25th Anniversary Edition points to God himself as the primary source of recovery. Millions of people have been helped by this Bible. New articles provide a fresh perspective on recovery. Help for leaders is provided in a general facilitator's guide and a step-by-step meeting guide. These offer help to anyone starting or running recovery groups at church or in the community. Features: New inspirational Preface Article: A Word about Addictions Article: An Early History of Life Recovery Article: Thriving in a Secular Recovery Group Article: Life-Giving Recovery Groups in the Church Life Recovery Facilitator's Guide Step-by-Step Life Recovery Meeting Guide The 12 Christian Foundations of Life Recovery The 12 Self-Evident Truths of Life Recovery Resources page, directing readers to helpful books and online resources

Author : D.E. Hardesty
Publisher : D.E. Hardesty
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781311878144

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Finding Your Power to Be Happy: Seven Practices to Bring Unconditional Happiness into Your Life by D.E. Hardesty Pdf

Learn to find the happiness that is natural to you, and enjoy better relationships, better health, more success and a longer life. The peculiar thing about us humans is, we spend a lot of time working to find people and things that will make us happy. In fact, we seem to spend the majority of our time doing this. However, there is no guarantee that any of this effort will work. There are lots of people who have hordes of people around them, and who have lots of things, but have been unable to make themselves happy. The truth is, happiness can be had with little effort. Have you ever been happy for no reason at all? Of course you have. Without anything changing in life, happiness just appears. We see it in young children all the time. In fact, we expect to see it in children. If you happen to ask a smiling child why he or she is so happy, at best the answer may be, “Because.” For an adult this may be an unsatisfying answer, but for the child it is the truth -- happiness exists “just because.” As we age we seem to lose touch with happiness-for-no-reason-at-all. We see a world where everyone is striving for stuff, striving for popularity, striving, striving, striving. The natural fount of happiness we once enjoyed disappears as we join them. However, that happiness is not gone. All that happened is we lost our connection to it. This book is about recovering that connection. We all grow up believing that if we work hard, and if we are good people, we will enjoy good relationships with others, good health, success and a long life. Obviously this is not true. There are a lot of rich old people who are not happy. What we have, what we do, and the other circumstances of our lives do not provide authentic happiness. Instead, happiness comes from inside of us, and all by itself enables us to have secure relationships, good health, more success and longer lives. So, what is the secret of being happy? Being happy is a little like flipping a switch. When it’s on you are happy and when it’s off you are not. It’s so easy. How else can you explain being happy for no reason. What you need to do is learn to turn it on, and keep it turned on. This book discusses seven practices that help you do that. There is a lot of wisdom available about how to be happy. Most of it is thousands of years old, but some is quite new. The seven practices we will look at incorporate this wisdom to help you learn how to turn on happiness in your life. This kind of happiness does not require changing anything in your life. All you have to do is learn to turn it on.

Author : Daniel Goleman,David Heller
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Psychology
ISBN : MINN:31951D00224055K

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The Pleasures of Psychology by Daniel Goleman,David Heller Pdf

Author : Leo Babauta
Publisher : Lumen Deo
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9786021460412

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The Little Book of Contentment by Leo Babauta Pdf

Contentment is a super power. If you can learn the skills of contentment, your life will be better in so many ways: You’ll enjoy your life more. Your relationship will be stronger. You’ll be better at meeting people. You’ll be healthier, and good at forming healthy habits. You’ll like and trust yourself more. You’ll be jealous less. You’ll be less angry and more at peace. You’ll be happier with your body. You’ll be happier no matter what you’re doing or who you’re with. Those are a lot of benefits, from one small bundle of skills. Putting some time in learning the skills of contentment is worth the effect and will pay off for the rest of your life.

Author : William Boggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600043192

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Thoughts on the source of life; also recent speculations on electricity, and other subjects, by an octogenarian [W. Boggett]. by William Boggett Pdf

Author : Randall M. Miller,Theodore J. Zeman,Francis J. Sicius,Jolyon P. Girard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610690331

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Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents [4 volumes] by Randall M. Miller,Theodore J. Zeman,Francis J. Sicius,Jolyon P. Girard Pdf

With this book, students, teachers, and general readers get a most important look at primary documents—essentially history's "first draft"—revealing rare insights into how American life in past eras really was, and also about how professional historians begin their work. Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents presents a large sweep of American history through the voices of the American people themselves. This multivolume work explores the daily lives of American people from colonial times to the present through primary documents that include diaries, letters, memoirs, speeches, sermons, pamphlets, and all manner of public and private writings from "the people." The emphasis is on the variety of people's experiences as they ordered and lived their daily lives. The cast includes Americans of every class and condition, men and women, parents and children, free and "unfree," native-born and immigrant. Hundreds of images further illustrate American life as it developed over more than four centuries and as Americans moved across a continent. Organized both chronologically and topically, this collection invites many uses by students, teachers, librarians, and anyone wanting to discover what counted in American lives at any one time and over time. Its focus on primary documents encourages readers of the volume to explore specific and critical events by taking a firsthand look at the actual documents from which those events draw historical meaning. The documents show Americans at work, at home, at play, in the public square, in places of worship, and on the move. As such, they perfectly complement the acclaimed Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America and will enrich any American history, social science, and sociology classroom.

Author : Albert Rabil
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0819192171

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Erasmus and the New Testament by Albert Rabil Pdf

Erasmus was a sixteenth century educator, theologian, satirist, and scholar and there have been a number of attempts to describe his intellectual development and to measure his greatness. However, Rabil believes that most interpretations of Erasmus and his work fail in analyzing Erasmus in a way consistent with all the source material on which such an interpretation must be based. The author argues that religion and humanism are the proper poles in relation to which Erasmus' intellectual development must be understood. In Rabil's own interpretation of Erasmus, he covers Erasmus' intellectual development as it relates to his editing of the New Testament in Greek, his translation of it into Latin, a look at the methodology in Erasmus' annotations and paraphrase of Romans, and a comparison of Erasmus and Luther on Romans. Rabil demonstrates that Erasmus' intellectual development occurred at every turning point, from his first poem in 1483 until he achieved a maturity of outlook in his edition of the Greek New Testament in 1516. Originally published in 1972 by Trinity University Press.

Author : Elizabeth Jane WHATELY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026402933

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Life and Correspondence of R. Whately, Etc by Elizabeth Jane WHATELY Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Jane Whately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:VD2283862

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Life and Correspondence of Rich. Whately, Late Archbishop of Dublin by Elizabeth Jane Whately Pdf