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Fred Feldman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Precis of Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausiblity of Hedonism
Philosophical Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Fred FeldmanAbstract:My central aim in Pleasure and the Good Life (hereafter "P&GL") was to show that when carefully formulated and charitably interpreted, certain forms of Hedonism yield plausible evaluations of the prudential value of lives. The forms of Hedonism in question are all versions of attitudinal Hedonism. These theories are based on the idea that the ultimate sources of prudential value in a person's life are episodes in which the person takes intrinsic attitudinal pleasure in some state of affairs. I use the term 'sensory Hedonism' to indicate views according to which pleasurable sensations or feelings make for a good life. None of the forms of Hedonism that I tried to defend in P&GL is a form of sensory Hedonism. I started by formulating a clear version of sensory Hedonism. On this theory which I called 'Default Hedonism' the ultimate bearers of prudential value are episodes in which a person feels some sensory pleasure or pain. I said that the value for the one who experiences it of such an episode is equal to the amount of pleasure or pain it contains. The prudential value of a life the value that the life has in itself for the one who lives it is just the sum of the values, positive or negative, of the episodes of sensory pleasure and pain in that life. As I was developing Default Hedonism I pursued one of my secondary aims. I tried to show that many of the standard ways of formulating Hedonism are incoherent, self-contradictory, or incomplete. I think there's little point in discussing a theory if we don't understand what the theory is supposed to say. Thus, I devoted quite a few pages to a discussion of defective formulations of allegedly hedonistic views and tried to show that my Default Hedonism is not defective in those formal ways (though I did not endorse Default Hedonism as the truth about prudential value). With a coherent version of sensory Hedonism in place I turned to the presentation of some classic objections. One objection presented by G. E. Moore among others turns on the idea that some pleasures are so base and degrading that a life full of them would simply be a
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pleasure and the good life concerning the nature varieties and plausibility of Hedonism
2004Co-Authors: Fred FeldmanAbstract:Introduction 1. The Quest for the Good Life 2. Hedonism: A Preliminary Formulation 3. Classic Objections to Hedonism 4. Attitudinal Hedonism 5. Replies to Some Objections 6. The Shape of a Life Objection 7. G. E. Moore, Hedonist? 8. But is it Really 'Hedonism'? 9. Problems about Beauty and Justice 10. Themes and Puzzles
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The Good Life: A Defense of Attitudinal Hedonism
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002Co-Authors: Fred FeldmanAbstract:What makes a life go well for the one who lives it? Hedonists hold that pleasure enhances the value of a life; pain diminishes it. Hedonism has been subjected to a number of objections. Some are (a) based on the claim that Hedonism is a form of “mental statism”. Others are (b) based on the claim that some pleasures are base or degrading. Yet others are (c) based on the claim that when a bad person enjoys a pleasure, his receipt of that pleasure seem not to make the world better. It is important to keep in mind that Hedonism is a theory about the value of a person's life for the person who lives it, and not for the world or for others. It is also important to distinguish between sensory Hedonism and attitudinal Hedonism. “Desert Adjusted Intrinsic Attitudinal Hedonism” appears to be immune to objections (a) and (b). A variant appears to be immune to all of them. Perhaps it is the answer to the question about the value of a life.
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utilitarianism Hedonism and desert essays in moral philosophy
1997Co-Authors: Fred FeldmanAbstract:Introduction Part I. Utilitarianism: 1. World utilitarianism 2. On the extensional equivalence of simple and general utilitarianism 3. The principle of moral harmony 4. On the consistency of act and motive utilitarianism Part II. Hedonism: 5. Two questions about pleasure 6. Mill, Moore, and the consistency of qualified Hedonism 7. On the intrinsic value of pleasures Part III. Desert: 8. Adjusting utility for justice 9. Desert: reconsideration of some received wisdom 10. Justice, desert, and the repugnant conclusion Index of subjects Index of persons Index of cases.
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Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy - Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy
1997Co-Authors: Fred FeldmanAbstract:Introduction Part I. Utilitarianism: 1. World utilitarianism 2. On the extensional equivalence of simple and general utilitarianism 3. The principle of moral harmony 4. On the consistency of act and motive utilitarianism Part II. Hedonism: 5. Two questions about pleasure 6. Mill, Moore, and the consistency of qualified Hedonism 7. On the intrinsic value of pleasures Part III. Desert: 8. Adjusting utility for justice 9. Desert: reconsideration of some received wisdom 10. Justice, desert, and the repugnant conclusion Index of subjects Index of persons Index of cases.
Robert C. Bartlett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus
American Political Science Review, 2008Co-Authors: Robert C. BartlettAbstract: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. N
Guy Fletcher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Consistency of Qualitative Hedonism and the Value of (at Least Some) Malicious Pleasures
Utilitas, 2008Co-Authors: Guy FletcherAbstract:In this article, I examine two of the standard objections to forms of value Hedonism. The first is the common claim, most famously made by Bradley and Moore, that Mill's qualitative Hedonism is inconsistent. The second is the apparent problem for quantitative Hedonism in dealing with malicious pleasures. I argue that qualitative Hedonism is consistent, even if it is implausible on other grounds. I then go on to show how our intuitions about malicious pleasure might be misleading.
Francoise D Alsaker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sexual risk behavior in emerging adults gender specific effects of Hedonism psychosocial distress and sociocognitive variables in a 5 year longitudinal study
Aids Education and Prevention, 2010Co-Authors: Jeannette Brodbeck, Ulrika Louise Vilen, Monica Susanne Bachmann, Hansjoerg Znoj, Francoise D AlsakerAbstract:The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal effects of HIV protection intention, condom self-efficacy, psychosocial distress and Hedonism on sexual risk hehavior up to 5 years later. The sample included 1,290 Swiss heterosexual young adults aged 16-24 years. A series of hierarchical logistic regression analyses yielded clear gender-specific results showing that for women condom self-efficacy and psychosocial distress, and for men HIV protection intention and Hedonism, predicted sexual risk behavior up to 5 years later. The relationship between psychosocial distress and sexual risk behavior in women was partially mediated by a lower condom self-efficacy but not by a lower HIV protection intention. High Hedonism in young men did not decrease HIV protection intention but had a direct effect on sexual risk behavior. Theoretical consequences for sociocognitive models of sexual risk behavior and practical implications for prevention are discussed. The present study aims to shed light on the relationship among HIV protection intention, condom self-efficacy, psychosocial distress, Hedonism, and sexual risk behavior in emerging adults over a period of 5 years. Emerging adulthood is a period of completing developmental tasks, such as building up romantic and sexual
Sylvie Rousset - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hedonism as a predictor of attitudes of young French women towards meat.
Appetite, 2006Co-Authors: Olivier Audebert, Véronique Deiss, Sylvie RoussetAbstract:Abstract Iron-deficient young women who are at risk of anaemia should be advised to eat red meat, a good food source of iron. However, red meat is known to elicit negative attitudes among young women, which could lead to low meat consumption. Several factors can contribute to meat attitudes. We therefore hypothesised that a good predictor of attitudes towards meat could be a positive affective component, for example, the pleasure of eating meat. In our study, 77 women with a mean age of 30.5 were surveyed. They were first asked about four Hedonism variables (overall, eating, red meat and white meat Hedonism) and ethical and nutritional concerns. Secondly, they were asked to express their attitudes of like/dislike towards meat by way of meat pictures, odours and taste. Red meat Hedonism was first highly correlated with a liking of raw red and white meat pictures (0.41≤ r ≤0.68), followed by a liking of cooked red and white meat pictures (0.27≤ r ≤0.62). To a lesser extent, red meat Hedonism was correlated with a liking of meat odours (0.29≤ r ≤0.38) and beef taste ( r =0.32). Finally, red meat Hedonism was the best predictor for most of the likings for red and white meat images. Thus, red meat images were pleasant for people who already like meat and did not encourage meat consumption among low meat-eating women.
