Value Of Pleasure Research Articles

Motivação para a aprendizagem ao longo da vida

In this exploratory study with a non-randomized sample, the authors try to explore adults’ motivations toward lifelong learning. Using a quantitative methodology, the motivations (importance of learning, intrinsic value of learning and pleasure in learning) and participations in learning (presently, in the last two years or more than three years ago) were assessed considering sex, age and schooling.

Feldman on the nature and value of pleasure

Fred Feldman is the Roger Federer of philosophy. His strokes are crisp and clean, his shots deep and penetrating, his finesse dazzling. And he makes it all look so easy! Pleasure and the Good Life is just the latest in a long line of works that are peerless in their combination of insight, rigor, subtlety, and clarity. There is a great deal in the book that seems to me absolutely right and about which I will therefore have nothing to say. In this comment, I will focus on points that continue to trouble me, despite Feldman’s best efforts at setting me straight.

The limits of hedonism: Feldman on the value of attitudinal pleasure

1. Among theories of the good life, hedonism is often regarded as both the simplest and the least plausible. It is a simple theory in that it identifies one good only pleasure as having prudential value.1 But it is implausible because of this simplicity, as a result of which it is accused of supporting unduly narrow judgements about prudential value, holding that only a life of sensual contentment is valuable, and overlooking the fact that our lives go better or worse for us if we acquire other things we desire, or if we obtain intrinsic goods such as knowledge and friendship. Fred Feldman's Pleasure and the Good Life sets out to demolish both these widely held theses about hedonism.2 Hedonism, Feldman shows, is not the simple theory its critics claim it is, nor is it implausibly restrictive in its range of judgements about the good life. When properly understood, it is a malleable, or, as he puts it, a "plastic" theory that allows of different interpretations, some of which accommodate claims about the good life that have traditionally been seen as paradigmatically non-hedonist, and indeed, anti-hedonist. His argument unfolds in two main steps. The first step consists in arguing that what has prudential value,3 according to the hedonist, is not, as is often thought, sensory pleasure, that is, pleasure as a feeling or tingle or a sensation, but attitudinal pleasure, that is, favourable attitudes towards some state of affairs such as enjoying it, being pleased about it, being glad it is happening, being delighted by it, and so on (p. 56). Sensory and attitudinal pleasures are distinct phenomena, although they can be related. It is possible for someone to experience attitudinal pleasure in having sensory pleasures we often enjoy having

The Effect of the Relationship of Brand Trust and Brand Affect on Brand Performance: An Analysis from Brand Loyalty Perspective (A Case of Instant Coffee Product in Indonesia)

Brand that manages to bring a meaningful impression on consumers are more likely to win a special attention. Value-added brands are also more likely to win a distinctive spot in consumers' minds. In addition, brand could affect consumers' brand affection and brand trust. Consumers attempt to choose the brand they want with the consideration of the value of purpose and pleasure (Batra & Athola, 1990), availability, uniqueness, quality (Sheth, 2001), etc. This research is conducted to discover the effect of the relationship of brand trust and brand affect toward brand performance mediated by purchase loyalty and attitudinal loyalty as units of consumer brand loyalty. This research uses one product category (instant coffee), consisting of four brands (Nescafe, Torabika, ABC, and Kapal Api).

The Problem of Pleasure in Music Therapy

This article explores ideas around the potential value of pleasure within music therapy processes. It sets out to review and develop theory through the use of an abductive approach whereby texts are related to clinical experience and empirical material. As an initial context for the exploration, the music therapy literature is searched for reflections on pleasure. The question of whether pleasure is worth pursuing is addressed through a brief exploration of some relevant texts in Western philosophy and psychology. These literature reviews suggest that there is need for more exploratory and reflective work on pleasure within music therapy. As a contribution to this, material from a qualitative research interview with a client is presented. This material is seen in relation to relevant theories on music, mood and emotion, and implications for music therapy theory and practice are then examined.

Socrates, pleasure, and value

ONE. Introduction TWO. Plato's Aporetic Style THREE. Ethical Protagoreanism FOUR. Callicles' Hedonism FIVE. Callicles Refuted SIX. Death Is One of Two Things SEVEN. The Intrinsic Value of Sense Pleasure and Pain EIGHT. The Righteous Are Happy NINE. Does Socrates Conistently Hold th Sufficiency Thesis? TEN. How Socrates Can Make Both Pleasure and Virtue the Chief Good Notes Bibliography Index of Passages General Index

Aspectos socio-culturales de la sexualidad como factores obstaculizantes de la prevención secundaria del cáncer cérvico uterino

The purpose of the study is to explore some characteristics of women's perspectives on their sexuality, as there is information that associates the population's sexual culture with the incidence of cervical cancer. The value of sexual pleasure, sexual activity after menopause, and ways of preventing cervical cancer are explored. Data were obtained from a group of women attending primary care clinics in Santiago, Chile, and who were at least a year late for their Pap smear. The value women ascribed to sexuality was more positive than in previous studies performed in Chile. Women want to learn more about their bodies, although a minority still have negative perspectives concerning their sexuality. These results offer health services the opportunity to carry out educational activities with the purpose not only of increasing the number of women who have Pap smears but also of improving their quality of life

Theory and Cultural Value

The necessity of value value of pleasure, pleasure of value absolute rubbish - cultural economies of loss in Freud, Bataille and Beckett the ethics of discourse - Habermas, Lyotard and Rorty exchanging utopia - Marxism, aesthetics and value feminism and value - ethics, difference, discourse ethics without ethos - Levinas, Derrida, Joyce beyond cultural value - the writing of the other.

Predicting alcohol use among young adults

Factors influencing alcohol use among young people were studied using a questionnaire administered in Oklahoma and Wisconsin to 257 single males and 358 single females between the ages of 17—24. Predictors were broken down into the sets of demographics, family, religion, peer behavioral standards, approval of deviance, value of love and pleasure, and sex role variables. It was hypothesized that the predictors for alcohol use in males would differ from that of females. Data were analyzed separately for both male and female subjects. The multiple regression analysis found that the blocks of demographics, religion, peer behavioral standards, and approval of deviance were positive predictors for the use of alcohol in both males and females. The blocks, value of love and pleasure, and sex role variables were not found to be predictors of alcohol use in both males and females. Block number two (family) was found to be a predictor for females use of alcohol but not for males.

La Mettrie et le «Système d'Épicure»

La Mettrie and his Système d'Épicure. La Mettrie often claims to be a disciple of Epicurus and Lucretius, but his Epicureanism, which is often rather vague, can be particularly seen in connection with four themes : the materiality of the soul ; the universality of death ; the value of pleasure ; and the rejection of finalism. This last theme is the main subject of his Système d'Épicure, in which he shows a resolute but non dogmatic materialism. In La Mettrie's thought, materialism is what destroys dogmatism, which is what distinguishes him from Epicurus, despite his claim to follow him.