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Pleasure is a positive sensation, though Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th Century German philosopher, understood pleasure as a negative sensation, as it negates the usual existential condition, that of suffering. It is commonly conceptualized as somehow opposed to pain, though it has received much less scientific attention. Pleasure can be brought about in different ways, depending on how every individual feels the feeling of pleasure. Some feel this phenomenon through music, sexuality, writing, accomplishment, recognition, service, and any other imaginable activity; even pain. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (from wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...
It also refers to "enjoyment" related to certain physical, sensual, emotional or mental experience.
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.
Pleasure could be accorded a place in the best life attainable for beings like ourselves, imperfect enough to have recurrent needs but sometimes aware of their however partial and temporary satisfaction.
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