The negative of pleasure, or perhaps its antidote, is depression, the popular modern malady, an uncomfortably dull refuge from the question of pleasure and how much is the right amount for you.
While the cultural uses of meat can be replaced — my mother and I now eat Italian, my father grills veggie burgers, my grandmother invented her own "vegetarian chopped liver" — there is still the question of pleasure.
Accepting his Nobel Prize in 1962, John Steinbeck struck a self-effacing note: "In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence — but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself".
(The question of whether pleasure has intentional structure will come up again, briefly, later in this section and throughout §2.3).
On the general question of whether pleasure and pain are dimensional opposites, see n. 1 above, especially paragraphs 4 and 5, and notes 39 and 45 below with the text accompanying the latter.
I would like to see some science applied to the question of esthetic pleasure in animals.
There's no fun in agreeing with anyone on questions of art, pleasure, or knowledge; in every case it's better to go against the grain, to go in through the door where truth doesn't exist and show that everything could have been just this other way.
The rum, the drums, the sea breeze, the dark, flailing limbs of the dancers — it all raises an interesting question of a type pleasure travelers seldom confront: should you really be boozing it up in a defunct slave market?
It's not a question of satisfaction or pleasure; like any true addict, it's about numbing oneself to the world in whatever way works.
"Chocolat" poses a less-than-penetrating question: Can the liberating virtues of pleasure -- here embodied by the warm, inviting power of chocolate -- triumph over well-meaning but closed-minded small-town zealots?
Asked, in an interview, about the composer's current relevance, he stated, "If music is only a question of entertainment and the pleasure of a pastime, then obviously Bruckner is not the composer for you.
