Descartes' views of the function or content of pleasure and Spinoza's official definitions of pleasure as an affect of transition to greater perfection are close to Plato's, as also are one of Kant's characterizations,[18] one of Elijah Millgram's (2000, pp. 122-26), and Timothy Schroeder's (2001, 2004, discussed in §3.2).
The natural and intuitive assignment of contents that first makes plausible construing pleasure as an attitude with content runs into problems when it is extended to a uniform attitude theory of the content of all pleasure, as Anscombe (1981c/1967) first observed.
For more than a decade, he had dementia, but his self-loss was gradual and his life, lived at home with my mother, his wife of 61 years, still contented and full of pleasure and gladness.
I no longer really wanted to shelve paperbacks and made my culling judgments on the basis of my emotional attachments, my love of the content presented by those authors who have truly moved me, whose content has given me hours of pleasure and made a difference in my understanding of the human condition.
So long as Charles II remained on the throne, Monmouth was content to live a life of pleasure in Holland, while still hoping to accede peaceably to the throne.
In the case of believable content, increased pleasure may result from belief confirmation and from an absence of conflict.
He goes on to fill in the details of this unified, exploratory form of perception, offering philosophical accounts of tool use and distal touch, the representational structure of tangible properties, the spatial content of touch, and the role of pleasure in tactual experience.
(A teaser, from Publishers Weekly: "The wonder is that, given her book's richness, Walls still leaves the reader eager to read Thoreau. Her scholarly blockbuster is an awesome achievement, a merger of comprehensiveness in content with pleasure in reading")...
The warm buttered lobster roll ($24) is a thing of crustacean perfection that will elicit purrs of pleasure or just moments of contented contemplation.
Positive emotions tended to taper off in the middle of the call, but residents were engaged in the conversation, and showed instances of pleasure consistent with the nature and content of the conversation.
Does the feeling of pleasure in a judgment of taste have intentional content?
