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Le cahier shows how vicarious experiences, like appreciating music and reading, cause pleasure by momentarily suspending reality.
For Barthes, rereading may cause pleasure, "but not my bliss: bliss may come only with the absolutely new".
In "The Pleasure of the Text," the French semiotician Roland Barthes posits a reading-related dichotomy between books that cause pleasure and those that cause jouissance — a word he used to mean both bliss and orgasm.
To be good, they claim, is just to cause pleasure.
Electrical stimulation here, in an area called the nucleus accumbans, is enough to cause pleasure.
Love is not invariably caused by pleasure and it does not invariably cause pleasure.
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Aside from causing pleasure, sex clearly lowers fear and anxiety.
When this biological mechanism evolved, which results in these foods causing pleasure, food was potentially scarce, and sugar-packed soda was non-existent.
Further, health, beauty, and the like, as being bodily excellences and productive of many other good things: for instance, health is productive both of pleasure and of life, and therefore is thought the greatest of goods, since these two things which it causes, pleasure and life, are two of the things most highly prized by ordinary people.
Prescription opioids work on the same sorts of receptors that heroin does, and so are capable of causing pleasure, and hence addiction – and the acquisitive crime associated with addiction – as well as the same sort of medical problems, ranging from nausea and constipation, through respiratory depression, to death.
So goodness cannot be defined as causes pleasure.
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