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 | | Pleasure and pain would, if all such views were true, be the only ultimately good- and bad-making features of human (and relevantly similar animal) life and also the only ultimate ends of all our voluntary pursuit and avoidance. |
 | | Pleasure, although it sometimes seems to share a thought's content, is not easily assimilated to mere thought and resists any analysis in terms of belief or judgment, despite the claims of ancient Stoics (Long and Sedley 1987, §65, B, C and D) and their followers (opposed by Hamlyn 1978; Sorabji 2000; Helm 2000, ch. |
 | | Pleasure and theories involving it came to be increasingly disregarded by philosophers nevertheless, despite defenses of aspects of historical hedonism by Richard Brandt (1979, 1982, 1993) and Irwin Goldstein (1980, 1985, 1989) and neuroscientific discoveries widely taken to suggest that pleasure might be a motivatonally powerful isolable experience, much as the simple picture had supposed. |
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