Abstract:In the first several sections of the essay, I explain one of the most influential current views about the nature of pleasure. This is the view of Sidgwick, Brandt, Alston, and others, according to whi...In the first several sections of the essay, I explain one of the most influential current views about the nature of pleasure. This is the view of Sidgwick, Brandt, Alston, and others, according to which a feeling is correctly said to be a pleasure if the person who has that feeling likes it for its own sake, or enjoys it, or wants it to continue, or (in Sidgwick's words) “apprehends it as desirable in itself.” In general, according to this view, any sort of feeling might be a pleasure – it doesn't matter how it “feels.” A feeling is a pleasure if the one who feels it has an appropriate attitude toward it when he or she has it.Read More
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-08-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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