I like to have a few pleasant objects around me, without ever really wanting to aspire to the Room Beautiful.
It is remarkably pleasant, before the failure starts, to use one's hand and wrist, to hold and savor pleasant objects, for the purpose of copying in one's own delightful penmanship the marks of those who have gone before.
Subjects were requested to smell and/or observe the experimenter while grasping three foods ("sandwich with Mortadella", "sandwich with Salame" and "Bombolone", see Methods, and one non-food-related, but still carrying a pleasant odour, object, "Soap").
Many argue that, while Moore's argument shows that thinking something is good is different than thinking it is pleasant (or the object of a desire, or such as to conform to some norm that is in force), it does not show that being good is different from being pleasant (or the object of a desire, or such as to conform to some norm that is in force).
Whatever the details, the non-cognitivists share the idea that one can admit that something is pleasant, or the object of a desire, or such that it conforms to some rule in force, and nonetheless not take a stand regarding it, or not have any particular emotion concerning it, or not have any interest in prescribing anything relating to it.
At an early stage of mental life the child will experience pleasure from some object say an apple and transfers the pleasant sensation to the object, so that it becomes part of the content of the apple, a part of what that object means to the child, or, better, a part of what the child sees in that object.
The child generates an appetite for objects of this sort and in the presence of an apple the child will have a mixed reaction: a pleasant feeling because the object is seen as pleasant, but a painful feeling because she is not in possession of, or enjoying, the apple.
And importantly, only appetizing but not bland foods were rated as more pleasant than the control objects, hence an elevated valence or pleasantness of food items is unlikely to explain the results.
Compared to the Etruscans, though, there was less emphasis on provision of a lifestyle for the deceased, although paintings of useful objects or pleasant activities, like hunting, are seen.
The tone is so pleasant that you can hardly object.
