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Regarding the importance of human behaviour in tourism, this paper will be analyzing and evaluating human actions, using the examples of behaviourism in tourism, in the context of ethics. Defining the concept of values in tourism as a concept of desirable with a motivating force, we diferentiate four hierarchical quantities or levels, regarding ground of value. The aim is to analyze all of the levels, but with a stronger emphasis on ethical tradition of teleological ethics within hedonism arises and which later becomes the basis for utilitarism. Hedonism in general is a very good basis for exploring human behaviour in tourism and given that some authors have perceived it as a sin rather than a virtue of tourism. That is why is necessary to investigate the emergence of new moral authorities in tourism and potentially reconstruct it.

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- Virtue Ethics, Philosophy of Culture, Tourism, Hedonism

ABSTRACT - Consumer behaviour can change according to time and conditions. The hedonic and utilitarian values that evoke our sense of purchase can be effective in producing these differences. Specifically, consumers display purchasing activities with different values and behaviours when they feel insecure, such the feeling of a potential threat to their lives, such as during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The present cross-sectional study aims to investigate the effects of such a potential threat on online purchase intentions toward food products and whether hedonic and/or utilitarian shopping values play a mediating role in these relations during the current COVID-19 pandemic conditions in Turkey. More specifically, data was collected from 556 food consumers during April 2020 using an online survey. This study used a structural equation model to analyse and test the research hypotheses. The results show that a perceived potential threat to life (death threat) is positively related to both utilitarian versus hedonic shopping value and online purchase intentions toward food products. Also, utilitarian versus hedonic shopping values are positively related to a death threat with regard to food products. Utilitarian shopping and hedonic shopping values can play a mediating role between death threat and online purchase intentions. This demonstrates that a strong perceived threat to life, such as in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic or other high risk factors, will result in the intention to buy foods providing hedonic or utilitarian value, which promotes online shopping.

- by Resul Öztürk
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- Utilitarianism, Hedonism, Purchase Intention, Utilitarian and Hedonic Consumption
- by David Sobel
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- Ethics, Hedonism

This study was carried out on the moderating effect of peer attachment on the relationships between religiosity and worldview, and on how hedonistic behaviour among Malaysian undergraduate students is shaped by such influences. With regard to peer attachment, the study focused on the influences of communication, trust and alienation among youth. Bronfenbrenner’s theory of human ecology and Armsden and
Greenberg’s attachment model were used as the framework. Drawing on a quantitative survey of 394 Malaysian university students (M age ¼ 21.0, SD ¼ 0.40), structural equation modelling and path analysis revealed a significant relationship between worldview and hedonistic behaviour. Peer attachment moderated the relationships between religiosity and religious worldview. The results further showed that the unique
moderating effect of the lower level of attachment with peers is positively related to the hedonistic behaviour. Implications from the findings are discussed.

- by Steven Krauss
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- Youth Studies, Religiosity, Youth, Youth and Religion

1. Through the Experience Machine (EM) thought experiment, Robert Nozick purports to show that something matters other than our subjective experiences, namely contact with objective reality. As a descriptive claim about the intuitions people have vis-à-vis the EM, Nozick has the facts right: many people do care about things other than their own subjective mental states. But just because an intuition is widely shared doesn't make it rational. In this essay, I argue that the intuitive revulsion many feel at the prospect of plugging into the EM is irrational. Such intuitions do not reveal anything about the intrinsic value of contact with reality, but are best explained by the notion of imaginative failure. The argument proceeds with the claim that we can conceive of very low levels of well-being at which plugging into EM appears prima facie rational. The individuals typically exposed to the EM thought experiment, affluent Western academics and their similarly privileged students, tend to lead lives that realize much higher levels of well-being. It is therefore unsurprising that such individuals feel a strong intuitive revulsion at the prospect of plugging into the EM. We make a serious error, however, when we infer from our particular, intuitive revulsion a general normative conclusion. We must first examine our intuitions more closely. Or, rather, we must consider the prospect of the EM from other perspectives, particularly those that are far different from our own, to see if we can generate different intuitions that provide counter-evidence to our initial revulsion.

- by Ben Bramble
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- Subjective Well-Being, Well-Being, Moral Philosophy, Happiness and Well Being
- by Sebastián Endara
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- Poetry, Hedonism, Poesía Ecuatoriana

_The Physiology of Love and Other Writings_ is the first English annotated collection of Mantegazza’s selected works. In my extensive introductory essay, Mantegazza’s hybrid contributions from fiction, travel-writing, and ethnography to physiology, medicine, and politics are reevaluated as instances of a proto-cultural-studies approach attuned to the cross-fertilization of disciplines and the circulation of ideas in a period of European intellectual history that defied the notion of specialization.
Table of contents:
The Physiology of Love
And Selections from:
On The Hygienic and Medicinal Virtues of the Coca Plant and on Nervine Nourishment in General
One Day in Madeira
A Voyage to Lapland with my Friend Stephen Sommier
India
Epicurus: Essay in a Physiology of the Beautiful
The Neurosic Century
The Tartuffe Century
Head: Or, Sowing Ideas to Create New Deeds
Political Memoirs of a Foot Soldier in the Italian Parliament
The Year 3000: A Dream
The Psychology of Translation

This paper presents a new account of pleasure. Aesthetic engagement for pleasure is a distinct psychological structure, marked by a characteristic self-reinforcing motivation. Pleasure figures in this structure in two ways: In the short run, when we are in contact with particular artefacts on particular occasions, pleasure keeps aesthetic engagement running smoothly. Over longer periods, it plays a critical role in shaping how we engage with objects to get this kind of pleasure from them. This account is yoked to a broadly functional understanding of art: it is not the nature of the object that makes it art, but the nature of the response that it is designed to elicit. The view does not, however, rest on individual psychology alone, as some other functional accounts do. Crucially, it is argued that shared cultural context is a key determinant of the pleasure we derive from aesthetic artefacts. The pleasure of art is always communal and communicative.

- by Mohan Matthen
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- Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Pleasure, Hedonism

According to hedonism about well-being, lives can go well or poorly for us just in virtue of our ability to feel pleasure and pain. Hedonism has had many advocates historically, but has relatively few nowadays. This is mainly due to three highly influential objections to it: The Philosophy of Swine, The Experience Machine, and The Resonance Constraint. In this paper, I attempt to revive hedonism. I begin by giving a precise new definition of it. I then argue that the right motivation for it is the 'experience requirement' (i.e., that something can benefit or harm a being only if it affects the phenomenology of her experiences in some way). Next, I argue that hedonists should accept a felt-quality theory of pleasure, rather than an attitude-based theory. Finally, I offer new responses to the three objections. Central to my responses are (i) a distinction between experiencing a pleasure (i.e., having some pleasurable phenomenology) and being aware of that pleasure, and (ii) an emphasis on diversity in one's pleasures.

- by Ben Bramble
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- Subjective Well-Being, Well-Being, Pleasure, Happiness and Well Being
- by Tatjana Aleknienė
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- Plato, Pleasure, Philebus, Hedonism
- by Ole Martin Moen
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- Axiology, Hedonism, Intrinsic Value

This essay provides an overview of Plato’s contribution to food ethics. Drawing on various Platonic dialogues, the discussion includes an analysis of the problem of gluttony and the correlate virtue of moderation, the diet of the... more

- by Daniel Silvermintz
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- Plato, Virtue Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Food ethics

The increasing relevance of Instagram and its growing adoption among top brands suggest an effort to better understand consumers' behaviors within this context. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of perceived hedonism and satisfaction in determining consumers' intentions to interact and their actual interaction behaviors (the number of likes, by tapping a heart icon, and comments) in a brand's official Instagram account. Also, we investigate the effect of consumer perceptions about the characteristics of the content generated in the account (perceived originality, quantity, and quality) on their perceived hedonism and satisfaction. Data were collected in two stages from 808 members of a fashion brand's official Instagram account. First, participants answered an online questionnaire to evaluate their perceptions, satisfaction, and interaction intentions. Second, 1 month later, we measure the number of likes and comments done by each participant in the brand's official Instagram account during that month. Using partial least squares to analyze the data, perceived hedonism is found to affect both satisfaction and the intention to interact in Instagram, which in turn influences actual behavior. Besides, perceived originality is the most relevant content characteristic to develop perceived he-donism. These findings offer managers a general vision of consumers' behaviors on Instagram, highlighting the importance of hedonism to create a satisfactory experience.

- by Carlos Flavián
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- Satisfaction, Brand Communities, Originality, Hedonism

The middle class are defined and valued by what they own, their successes in business, their rise through the tiers of the education system, and their 'good taste'. The Class War has too often been measured through the narrow distribution of wealth, education and through the economy. Meaning that when working class people enter into higher education, or become entrepreneurial and innovative. Setting up local businesses serving their community, or enter into the creative industries of art, drama, or literature they must immediately deny their working class identities, lives and families. To be working class has too long been used as shorthand to mean failure, they are the ones that were not good enough to rise and become middle class. It appears almost impossible to describe yourself as a working class academic, or a working class artist in the UK today, the common misconception is that we (the working class) cannot appreciate the arts, literature, or engage in critical thinking. Instead to be working class is to be poor and shabby, unhealthy, and always connected to dirt. George Orwell in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' told us that the middle class despire us and think of us in 4 frightful words 'the lower class smell', and I trust his first hand account from the playing fields of Eton. Even though class difference and inequality is often seen only as connected to wealth and the economy, it is class snobbery that ensures that working class people feel an eternal shame of where they come from and who they are. Culture and 'taste' constantly keep those class boundaries and class inequalities visible and legitimate. In the ways that the middle class define themselves against working class people and use culture and cultural preferences to make sure they remain in their prime class position. While at the same time demeaning and ridiculing working class people for their lack of good taste. Class snobbery judges what is high culture and low culture and that snobbery filters down to our personal taste and image. Lazy shorthand markers of taste are used to quickly point to our class position, for women wearing big gold hooped earings are used to explain 'how common' or 'how rough' we are. Richard Littlejohn described Carol Duggan the grieving mother of Mark Duggan who was shot and killed in Tottenham by the Metroplitan Police in 2011 in his Daily Mail column as 'looking like she comes straight from benefits street with her big gold earings'. Despite the middle class attempts to demean our 'taste' we have always loved 'bling' and wearing our big gold earings to us is a sign of our glamour. They laugh at us watching and enjoying soap operas on our 48 " flat screen tellys, and use this has examples of our simple and low culture. Yet think of themselves going to the Royal Opera House to sit through 4 hours of a operatic production of the French Revolution as having good taste, and a critical and interesting mind and manners. Despite the constant propaganda that the culture of the middle class is that of high and refined knowledge it is the working class that are the innovative and creative class, taking risks and enjoying life. The British working class are multi-cultural we share our ideas, our family life, and our class struggle at school, in the pub, and on the street. Those shared ideas of an international working class in the UK then transform into exciting and interesting sub-cultures. From West Indian working class people in the UK came Ska, Two Tone, and Lovers Rock music, our Jewish brothers and sisters brought us anarchy, literature, and well fitting suits. Working class Asian families

- by Lisa Mckenzie
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- Sociology, Working Classes, Culture, Hedonism

Translation of Michel Onfray's Book La Puissance d'exister

- by joseph mcclellan
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- Contemporary French Philosophy, Hedonism

A mobile app is a computer (software) program designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices (Wikipedia). The increased use of mobile devices and mobile Internet has led to an explosion of the development and download of mobile applications. Businesses started competing to have a mobile application to gain competitive advantage or stay competitive. But despite the success of some, the majority of mobile applications fails outright or is not as successful as expected. So this study aims to define the factors that affect user satisfaction as a success measure of mobile applications. I/S Success Model is used as a basis for this study, and the model is expanded with the constructs related to flow. The research framework includes seven antecedents (system reliability and design, perceived ease of use, content usefulness, content quality, focused attention, perceived enjoyment, and flow) of user satisfaction that were derived from existing information systems, m-commerce and applications literature. The structural equation modeling (SEM) method was applied to evaluate the hypothesized relationships among the constructs in the theoretical model developed. The results of the study showed that system quality and information quality are important determinants of user satisfaction, but flow does not have a direct influence on user satisfaction. The most striking finding of this study is that perceived enjoyment is a significant determinant of satisfaction with mobile applications. Based on the findings, companies involved in m-commerce should focus on not only to improve the usefulness or quality of the system but also the design features of the applications that enhance enjoyment and the experience must also be considered carefully.

- by Zeynep Özata and +1
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- Service Quality, Mobile Commerce, Mobile apps, User satisfaction

Pleasure as an issue does not occupy the attention of the Hebrew Bible, but, from the Jewish encounter with Greek thought, it becomes a relevant topic and, at times, it is treated with great attention. Ancient Christian writers did not fail to welcome this discussion. Although it does not become a central theme, when the subject is the life that the Christian person lives in the present era, it is not strange that the same issue that accompanied Plato, Epicurus and the Stoics is present. In this article, I approach texts from the New Testament, texts from the Apostolic Father’s times, and, finally, works by two more sophisticated writers: Clement of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa. Through a careful reading of the primary sources, I try to discern how pleasure becomes an issue for these Christian writings, considering possible connections between their approaches and previous. I propose that the reason for taking care of the theme of pleasure lay in a rivalry between attention to pleasures and attention to God.

- by Cesar Motta Rios
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- Patristics, Early Christianity, Teologia, Hedonism

Go to tobybetenson.com for my recent work.

- by Toby Betenson
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- Death, Well-Being, Epicurus, Hedonism
- by Kimberly Mah
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- Psychology, Architecture, Crime, Theme Parks
- by Wil Baldwin
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- Philosophy, Comedy, Fantasy (Film Studies), Drama
- by Tomas Gurvičius
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- Entrepreneurship, Human Geography, Globalization, Social Entrepreneurship
- by Aira Palacio
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- Ethics, Epicureanism, Hedonism
- by William V. Harris
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- Ancient History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epicureanism, Roman Medicine

Speciale. The following study examines the meaning behind the theme of the Greek god Pan, following representations of the figure from written myths since the Homeric Hymn until his death was proclaimed by the philosopher Plutarch in... more

- by Freja Gyldenstrøm
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- Modernity, Occultism, Antiquity, Horror

Thesis: In this essay I intend to argue that the paradox of hedonism is not a good reason to reject hedonism. Firstly, I will explain the paradox, and then I will mention the arguments about hedonism and the way to get happiness those have power to refuse hedonism, and I will accept hedonism to find the meaning of life.
I. Explanation of Paradox of Hedonism
A. Similitudes of happiness
B. As self-defeating limit
C. Happiness is a by-product
II. Arguments About Hedonism
A. False Happiness
B. Two worlds
C. Autonomy
D. Trajectory
III. Meaning of Life
A. Thoughts of Aristotle
B. Thoughts of Camus

- by Merve Gönce
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- Philosophy, Ethics, Aristotle, Meaning of Life

This paper aims to follow the projected courses of Dorian`s pleasure seeking life, who is the protagonist of "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the only and the best novel of the Irish poet and writer, Oscar Wilde, in the light of five schools of the most influential philosophies of hedonism in the human history; applying them to his life to survey why Dorian is continually changing his experiences and his methods in pleasure seeking and what he wants and seeks that never achieves and ultimately how this disappointment leads to his committing suicide. Dorian starts his adventures of The Cyreniacs about enjoying of bodily pleasures and moves from The Epicurean ones of mental and social pleasures, for a while, remains at experiencing qualitative pleasures which are his particularly own interests like studying and thinking of his ancestors, that is, J.SMilìs account of hedonism, then tries miscellaneous kinds of Aristotelian pleasures and eventually reaches to the Sadistic pleasure, commits murder and finally suicide. Although his own philosophy was of aesthetic movement and "Art for art`s sake", as Lord Henry called it "New Hedonism" of enjoying art and beauty, but not all his pleasures had artistic and aesthetic beauty. Introduction Hedonism is a philosophical system that holds that the people are motivated primarily by the production of pleasure and happiness and the avoidance of pain. This philosophy is the fundamental idea of OscarWildès only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as he himself claims that the plot was " an idea that is as old as the history of literature but to which I have given a new form."(Holland/Hart-Davis,2000,p.224) "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… if it were only the other way! I would give my soul for that!"(Wilde, 27) thus Dorian makes a pact with Art that leads to his doom. His fate is representative of the Decadence. Wilde's only novel is the crucible of all his theories and the convergent of all the masks that he and his characters wear on different occasions. It is also a sufficient proof of his life and art to be inextricably linked. The peculiarity of the work relies on the fact that the three principle characters, Lord Henry Wotton, Basil Hallward, and Dorian Gray are the three aspects of Wilde personality as far as he is 'Oscar Wilde', that is the aesthetic figure that brought the attention of his time to himself as an artist and as a dandy and as a student of John Ruskin and Walter Pater. The three of these figures or three personalities of Wilde are all failures. Henry Wotton is endowed with rank, wealth, and brain, Basil with art, and Dorian with good looks. If we take good looks in its wider sense that is youth, we can attribute all these characteristics to Wilde. He was the one who relied on these characteristics and cultivated them to develop his individuality in full. He suffered, as Basil says somewhere, for what the gods gave him, hence the significance of Determinism. This would not have been the case if he had led an indifferent life of philistines. This article aims to look at the most basically striking and important hedonistic philosophies during the history. By implementation of these philosophies in this masterpiece ofthe Victorian writer, we try to investigate why Dorian was always searching for happiness and never reaching it despite conducting the most pleasurable kind of life. This study seeks to survey Dorian`s pleasures and experiences stated in the novel by a relatively close reading method of criticism in order to indicate Dorian's attempts for being happy and the cause of his failure which leads to his disappointment and finally his suicide.

- by Ebrahim Sharifat
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- Oscar Wilde, Aestheticism, Hedonism, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mill’s Principle of Utility: Origins, Proof, and Implications (Leiden: Brill, 2022) is a scholarly monograph on John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism with a particular emphasis on his proof of the principle of utility. Originally published as Mill’s Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill’s Notorious Proof (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1994), the present volume is a revised and enlarged edition with additional material, tighter arguments, crisper discussions, and updated references. The initiative is still principally an analysis, interpretation, and defense of the controversial proof, which has yet to attract a scholarly consensus on how it works and whether it succeeds. Well over a century and a half after Mill’s contribution, the subject matter continues to figure prominently in classroom discussions, where the principle and its proof are presented and debated in connection with the critical baggage of logical problems and conceptual confusions wrongly attributed to Mill from the beginning. The overarching aim of the book, now supplemented by a comprehensive historical background and salient philosophical implications, remains the vindication of Mill’s reasoning in pursuit of what he promises as a proof of the principle of utility.

- by Necip Fikri Alican
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- Utilitarianism, Mill's Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill, J.S. Mill
- by Voula Tsouna
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- Virtue Ethics, Minor Socratics, Hedonism

This is full text of the first part of my monograph "The logos of Heraclitus", published by Academic publishers "Nauka" in Saint-Petersburg in 2014, in English translation which contains all five chapters of the Introduction on Heraclitus' life, work and philosophy, as well a reconstruction of his lost work, the Greek text of the fragments with apparatus criticus and English translation. The second part contains commentary on fragments and is available in the original Russian edition on this personal page. This edition contains 160 fragments in the main corpus and 15 "Probabilia", i.e. probable fragments that are quoted without explicit mention of Heraclitus' name, but supported verbal coincidences and by parallels. Most of "Probabilia", including anonymous quotations in Plato, are based on new attributions. More than 20 fragments of the main corpus are not included in Diels-Kranz and other editions. Some of these fragments are new, some have been known before, but their status of authenticity has been reassessed and upgraded, e.g. from a doxographicum to a paraphrase of a verbatim quotation that contains a unique authentic tenet. In some other cases fragments considered authentic in DK, have been downgraded to interpretive paraphrase (B7, partly B91 DK) or to spuria (e.g. B105, B115 DK). In this edition we understand «fragment» not in Diels' formal sense as a verbatim quotation distinguished from «doxography» (an ill-defined category that we have criticised on our article "The origin and transmiision of the doxographical tradition... 2016), but as any ancient text that contains a unique piece of information on the philosophical content of a lost Preplatonic work, that cannot be reduced to other texts, an elementary «atom» of information. The status of authenticity may be variable starting from a flawless verbatim quotation in Ionian dialect and descending down to a mixed verbatim quotation with paraphrase, to a good paraphrase close to original text, to a free paraphrase, to an interpretive paraphrase, to a polemical paraphrase that seriously distorts the original, to a mere reminiscence of term or a topos. We usually restrict the admission to the main corpus of fragments by first three categories. Some fragments in our edition are reconstructed on the ground of ancient summary that after quoting a verbatim fragment points to the existence of «other, similar» sayings of Heraclitus (such are 6 hypothetical fragments in 44A and 45A in our edition). Some «fragments» in our edition are «thought-fragments» rather than «text-fragments», i.e. a doctrinal (rather than lexical) convergence of several independent sources that does not allow to establish the exact wording of the lost original, but makes more ol less certain the existence of a certain analogy, idea or other tenet, since the name of Heraclitus appears in one or more contexts. Such cases are found especially in the reconstruction of the section on krafts (τέχναι) imitating nature, fr.106-124 Leb.

Resumo: Este artigo científico mapeou os pontos de convergência entre a Psicologia Espírita de Joanna de Ângelis e a Psicologia Positiva no tocante à questão da felicidade, desdobrada nestes eixos: (1) a felicidade e a faceta sombria da existência; (2) a felicidade e a resignação dinâmica; (3) a felicidade e a diversidade da subjetividade; (4) as felicidades autêntica, eudaimônica e cairônica; (5) a felicidade e a ressignificação do hedonismo; (6) o diálogo entre as felicidades eudaimônica e cairônica. Em cada tópico desta pesquisa, estabeleceu-se uma interface, de um lado, entre o conteúdo de obras espíritas sobre temáticas psicológicas cuja autoria se atribui ao espírito Joanna de Ângelis, escritas por meio da psicografia do médium baiano Divaldo Pereira Franco, dando-se destaque ao conjunto de livros que compõem a denominada Série Psicológica, e, de outro lado, a literatura especializada em Psicologia Positiva, mediante a remissão a livros-texto, artigos científicos e capítulos de obras coletivas, em particular os aportes colhidos da chamada Segunda Onda da Psicologia Positiva. Abstract: This paper ascertained the points where the Spiritist Psychology of Joanna de Ângelis and Positive Psychology converge on the matter of happiness, broken down into the following core aspects: (1) happiness and the darkside of existence; (2) happiness and dynamic resignation; (3) happiness and the diversity of subjectivity; (4) authentic, eudaimonic, and chaironic happiness; (5) happiness and the resignification of hedonism; (6) the interaction between eudaimonic and chaironic happiness. Each topic of this research established an interface across the contents found in spiritist works on psychological themes whose authorship is attributed to the spirit of Joanna de Ângelis, penned by the Brazilian medium Divaldo Pereira Franco through automatic writing. Special focus is given to the series of books that make up de Ângelis’ Psychological Series and to specialized Positive Psychology literature by referring to textbooks, scientific articles, and chapters from collective works, particularly the contributions made by what is called the Second Wave of Positive Psychology.

- by Hidemberg Alves da Frota
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- Positive Psychology, Espiritismo, Existencialism, Psicología Positiva
- by Kelly Huang
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- Utopia, Sir Thomas More, Hedonism

Chapter 1 of Epicurus' Ethical Theory. The Pleasures of Invulnerability (1988)
This paper was written forty years ago and it is online here as part of a book published in the '80s. I have changed my mind about many things which I think were wrong including the question of whether Epicurus is a eudaimonist. For more recent thoughts I have posted in drafts "Epicurus on Desire and Pleasure".

- by Phillip Mitsis
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- Pleasure, Desire, Epicurus, Ancient Greek Philosophy
- by Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
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- Bioengineering, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Biopower

This inquiry seeks to convince how the development of the new marginalistic approach that will further emerge into neoclassicism, is actually based on the benthamistic conception about utility. Jevons borrows the main ideas about utility from Bentham, incorporates them into his own theory of marginal utility and shifts the view toward an individual and consumer perspective. The subjective theory of value and the concept of maximizing utility, both inspired by Bentham but developed by Jevons, can be regarded as one of the most relevant principles that enabled the rise of neoclassicism, a paradigm that as we can see, still remains the core of our contemporaneous economic activity.

- by Paula Pop
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- Economic History, Political Economics, Hedonism, Jeremy Bentham

Los aspectos ético y moral se insertan en los problemas de la filosofía antigua, aspectos que han sido tenidos en cuenta como determinantes en la búsqueda de la vida feliz. Una de tantas propuestas fue desarrollada por el heleno Epicuro oriundo de la isla de Samos quien argumenta que el placer es el fin de la vida feliz. Tal identificación del placer con la felicidad ha sido fundamento para que otros pensadores cataloguen a este filósofo de libertino, promiscuo, antimoral, etc. Así pues, el presente estudio se desarrolla desde una propuesta hermenéutica que contribuya a la interpretación veraz de la filosofía ética epicúrea. Además, se pretende argumentar desde la objetividad el verdadero sentido del placer rebatiendo toda opción que le perfila desde la práctica como elemento propicio para la lujuria, derroche, narcisismo; e inclusive impugnar aquellas conjeturas que profieren falacias en torno al tema en desarrollo.

- by Estiven Valencia Marín
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- Hedonism, Epicuro, Filosofía Griega Helenística, Etica epicúrea

In this paper, I will discuss two major criticisms emotional state theory brings against hedonistic theory of happiness. My project will consist in: 1) providing brief accounts of both hedonism and emotional state theory; 2) comparing shortly Mill’s endeavor of utilitarian hedonism and Bentham’s original version of utilitarian hedonism and conclude that Mill’s endeavor makes utilitarian hedonism more observant of the definition of happiness; 3) then I will state and discuss two major criticisms Daniel M. Haybron employs against hedonism and utilitarian hedonism by considering the emotional state view he harbors along with the several problems I find with Haybron’s arguments; and 4) conclude that Haybron’s criticisms against hedonism are warranted even against Mill’s qualitatively strengthened version of utilitarian hedonism, even though Haybron’s version of emotional state theory may be prone to criticism in terms of its distinction between pleasures and affective states. As a bonus, I will briefly mention the results with which Haybron concludes his discussion of emotional state theory about whether emotional conditions of happiness can track well-being better than hedonism does and if it does, how does it do so?

- by Sébastien Laliberté
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- Philosophy of Action, Normativity, Metaethics, Hedonism
- by Stephen M. Campbell
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- Health Sciences, Bioethics, Death, Death Studies

My doctoral thesis. The main theme is the conflict between aesthetics and religious sense in Oscar Wilde literature. I study fairy tales, the Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, and comedies. in all of there works, Wilde wrote both of... more

My doctoral thesis. The main theme is the conflict between aesthetics and religious sense in Oscar Wilde literature.
I study fairy tales, the Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, and comedies.
in all of there works, Wilde wrote both of aesthetics and religious sense, even though his works are very decadent.

- by Yuji Miyamoto
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- Religion, Christianity, Aesthetics, Comedy