Introduction: Pleasure and the Good Life

Russell, Daniel C.

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“…The doctrine that pleasure is the good in life or the goal that renders participation in an activity worthwhile is referred to as hedonism-seeking the greatest pleasure and least amount of pain for the individual as the end. Contemporary views on hedonism consider the forces that shape short-term and long-term pleasure (Brandt 1959;Gosling 1969;Sprigge 1987), as well as the factors that generate happiness in one part of one's life, not on life's direction as a whole (Russell 2005).…”

Section: Why We Travel For Pleasurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the case of emotion and attitude, pleasure can be sub-categorized as (1) satisfaction or accomplishment, (2) enjoyment, and (3) aesthetic appreciation. A fourth category includes sensation, and pertains to the qualitative feelings we get from pleasures that are physically localizable (Russell 2005;Oishi et al 2001). Pleasure as sensation is different than emotion or attitude because it does not have content.…”

Section: Pleasures Of the Mindmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Satisfaction (Russell 2005;Hadreas 1999) or accomplishment (Rozin 1999) as pleasure is represented by the achievement of something of value such as doing a job to the best of one's ability. In tourism, this type of satisfaction pertains to the realization of certain goals that lead to feelings of pleasure.…”

Section: Emotion/attitude: Satisfaction Enjoyment and Aesthetic Plementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the former case, the proper value is that which provides the most pleasure to the individual (hedonism), while in the latter case pleasure is derived through altruism (see Russell 2005). We thus come closer to understanding the nature of pleasure in observing the types of behaviours that people engage in, which in turn provides a window into the types of persons they are.…”

Section: Why We Travel For Pleasure -Revisitedmentioning

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The Nature of Pleasure in Pleasure Travel

Fennell¹

2009

Tourism Recreation Research

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It is indeed ironic that despite the importance of pleasure as a central theme in both the practice and theory of travel, there is a critical absence of knowledge from which to theoretically and conceptually situate this concept in our field. Given this current state, the purpose of this paper is to undertake a general survey of literature on pleasure, incorporating knowledge from a number of diverse fields including philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, sociology, and tourism. More specifically, the paper examines sensory or qualitative forms of pleasure and these are compared and contrasted with emotional or attitudinal forms of pleasure, including satisfaction, enjoyment and aesthetics. These different types of pleasure are later organized into a conceptual framework and linked with different temporal frames of pleasure, including anticipatory, on-site, and remembered temporal contexts. This arrangement, along with the interdisciplinary nature of the work, is viewed as a point of departure for further research in the area.

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Section: Why We Travel For Pleasurementioning

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Section: Pleasures Of the Mindmentioning

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Section: Emotion/attitude: Satisfaction Enjoyment and Aesthetic Plementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why We Travel For Pleasure -Revisitedmentioning

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The Nature of Pleasure in Pleasure Travel

Fennell¹

2009

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…It would seem that Plato's most penetrating critique of hedonism, then, is to be found in the Philebus and only there. 1 Russell (2005) also contends, if for different reasons, that the hedonistic argument adduced by Socrates in the Protagoras should not be taken as a statement of his own view (239-48). Failure to see that Socrates makes use of certain hedonistic arguments for purposes specific to the dramatic setting of the Protagoras results in such ingenious but strained attempts to square them with, for example, the rejection of hedonism in the Gorgias as can be found in Rudebusch 1999. The present study will begin with an overview of the Philebus, a notoriously difficult and labyrinthine dialog, 2 as a necessary preparation for a commentary on those of its parts most directly linked to Plato's critique of hedonism.…”

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Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus

Bartlett

2008

Am Polit Sci Rev

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N o one can claim to have thought seriously about the question "How ought I to live?", the guiding question of political philosophy, without having confronted the powerful answer to it supplied by hedonism. In thinking about hedonism today, we may begin from that thinker who was both very important to and early in its history: Plato. Of the dialogs that have come down to us as Plato's, only the Philebus takes as its direct aim the examination of pleasure's claim to be the human good. The Philebus culminates in the suggestions that the need for self-awareness or self-knowledge may finally be more fundamental to all human beings (and hence to hedonists) than is even the desire for pleasure, and that the experience of at least some pleasures constitutes a great obstacle to precisely the self-knowledge we seek. The Philebus is important today not only because it contains a searching analysis of hedonism but also because it compels us to raise the crucial question of the precise nature of "the good" with which we are justly most concerned--our own or that of others--a question whose centrality to self-knowledge we are in danger of forgetting.

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The Measure of Pleasure: A Note on theProtagoras

Davies¹

2017

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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ABSTRACT:To explain the presence of the doctrine of hedonism in Plato's Protagoras (351b–8a), the hypothesis is advanced that the author may have been responding to a suggestion made by Eudoxus of Cnidus that pleasures can be measured in terms of size, number, and intensity. The peculiar ways that Socrates represents these dimensions may indicate that Plato did not fully grasp Eudoxus's suggestion or, conversely, that he saw at once that it was a dead end.

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Introduction: Pleasure and the Good Life

Abstract: This introductory chapter begins by exploring the nature of pleasure at a common-sense level. It then shows what sorts of questions we need a more theoretically complete and rigorous account of pleasure to answer, and provides a brief overview of how Plato addresses them.

Cited by 12 publications

References 65 publications

The Nature of Pleasure in Pleasure Travel

The Nature of Pleasure in Pleasure Travel

Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus

The Measure of Pleasure: A Note on theProtagoras

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