Pleasure and Its Contraries

Abstract What is the contrary of pleasure? “Pain” is one common answer. This paper argues that pleasure instead has two natural contraries: unpleasure and hedonic indifference. This view is defended by drawing attention to two often-neglected concepts: the formal relation of polar opposition and the...
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Autor*in:

Massin, Olivier [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2014

Schlagwörter:

Polar Opposite

Independent Dimension

Indifference Point

Mixed Feeling

Gradable Predicate

Anmerkung:

© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: The review of philosophy and psychology - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010, 5(2014), 1 vom: 23. Jan., Seite 15-40

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:5 ; year:2014 ; number:1 ; day:23 ; month:01 ; pages:15-40

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s13164-014-0179-2

Katalog-ID:

SPR030716934

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