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"Many scholars have studied the dialogue between the Epicurean tradition and Pierre Gassendi. However, no one so far has ever attempted to conduct a full analysis of the latter's specific reception of Lucretius. The book attempts to show that Gassendi was the first to discuss almost the whole De rerum natura, as part of an ambitious project. He sought to provide a Christianized version of Lucretius' theory or to develop an atomistic worldview "freed" from the many dangerous errors that were often imputed to atomism (impiety, debauchery, and irrationality). In particular, Gassendi developed a dialectical strategy that led him to recover a providential atomism, an Epicurean psychology that saves the immortality of the soul, and a Christian hedonism from the De rerum natura. The last goal was especially important. Gassendi here emerges as the culmination of a tradition of Christian philosophers, like Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus of Rotterdam, who have tried to merge Epicurean hedonism with the Christian religion. The volume could therefore attract both scholars of Antiquity and Renaissance/modern philosophy. It is also a rewarding reading for scholars of the reception of Latin poetry from a philosophical perspective."
Hedonism --- Atomism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.
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Cet ouvrage qui fut d’abord un travail d’étudiant (1962) a pris tout son sens, au fil du temps, par rapport à une œuvre d’écrivain dont l’auteur pas plus qu’un autre, ne pouvait entendre qu’à propos de Platon le prélude était donné. Des nombreuses fictions qui allaient suivre et des réflexions qui prendraient forme et de l’œuvre opérée dans le champ de la littérature spirituelle, la fondamentale inclination du cœur vers le platonisme ne cesserait jamais de s’avouer comme désir d’unité et d’immobile éternité, comme rêverie androgynique, comme inspiration d’amour, vertige de beauté, passion de réminiscence. Le jeune homme qui réfléchissait sur les rapports dialectiques de l’ascèse et du bonheur chez l’auteur du Banquet, afin de les comparer à l’enseignement de la tradition mystique chrétienne, s’avançait, presque à son insu, sur un chemin d’intériorité qui ne devait le conduire, sans doute, ni à une plus claire connaissance de soi, ni à une illumination théophanique, mais du moins à l’acharnement d’écriture et de création – signifiant par là, s’il était encore besoin de le dire, et dans un cas tout particulier, la permanente fécondité de la parole platonicienne.
Asceticism. --- Hedonism. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Classics --- Philosophy --- tradition --- mystique chrétienne --- littérature --- platonisme --- réminiscence --- ascèse --- intériorité --- connaissance de soi --- Ascetisme --- Platon (428-348 av. j.c.) --- Critique et interpretation
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Originally published in 1967. In the past half-century, Utilitarianism has fallen out of favor among professional philosophers, except in such "amended" forms as "Ideal" and "Rule" Utilitarianism. Professor Narveson contends that amendments and qualifications are unnecessary and misguided, and that a careful interpretation and application of the original theory, as advocated by Bentham, the Mills, and Sidgwick, obviates any need for modification. Drawing on the analytical work of such influential recent thinkers as Stevenson, Toulmin, Hare, Nowell-Smith, and Baier, the author attempts to draw a more careful and detailed picture than has previously been offered of the logical status and workings of the Principle of Utility. He then turns to the traditional objections to the theory as developed by such respected thinkers as Ross, Frankena, Hart, and Rawls and attempts to show how Utilitarianism can account for our undoubted obligations in the areas of punishment, promising, distributive justice, and the other principal moral convictions of mankind. He contends that the Principle of Utility implies whatever is recognized to be clearly true in these convictions and that it leaves room to doubt whatever is doubtful in them. Narveson concludes with a rationally forceful proof of the Principle of Utility. In the course of this argument, which draws on the most widely accepted recent findings in analytical ethics, Narveson discovers an essential identity between the ethical outlooks of Kant and of Mill, which are traditionally held to be antithetical. Both thinkers, he shows, center on the principle that the interests of others are to be regarded as equal in value to one's own. A new view of Mill's celebrated "proof of utilitarianism" is developed in the course of the discussion.
Ethics. --- Utilitarianism. --- Ethics --- Hedonism --- Philosophy --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Ethics & moral philosophy
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Cet ouvrage collectif est le fruit d'un colloque sur les philosophies du plaisir qui a réuni philologues et philosophes, spécialistes de l'Antiquité et de la Renaissance, en juin 2004, à l'Université de Lille 3. Les études proposées analysent d'abord la formation des pensées du plaisir dans le monde antique et les débats qu'elles suscitèrent entre les différentes écoles, des grands théoriciens de l'Antiquité grecque jusqu'au début de l'ère chrétienne. Elles mettent aussi en évidence les réajustements et les discussions qui eurent lieu parfois au sein même des grandes familles philosophiques, chez les Cyrénaïques et les Épicuriens, mais aussi chez les Néoplatoniciens. On mesure alors combien l'Antiquité reste attachée à une pensée hédoniste dont la poésie latine s'est faite l'écho. En explorant ensuite le champ de la réception humaniste, ces travaux permettent d'évaluer la dette des philosophes de la Renaissance à l'égard de leurs prédécesseurs grecs et romains, mais aussi, dans un cadre politique, religieux et moral différent, de mieux cerner les enjeux d'une pensée du plaisir au sein de nouvelles configurations philosophiques, qu'il s'agisse de l'épicurisme chrétien d'un Lorenzo Valla ou de l'alliance d'épicurisme et de néoplatonisme chez Marsile Ficin. De glissements en réappropriations, un vaste corpus se dessine, en particulier de langue latine, assez délaissé jusqu'à présent et que ce recueil propose d'explorer.
Hedonism --- Hédonisme --- Pleasure --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Latin and classical Greek philosophy --- Criticism --- Klassieke oudheid. --- Renaissance. --- Hedonisme --- Plaisir --- Philosophie ancienne --- Philosophie de la Renaissance --- Hedonisme. --- Pleasure. --- Hédonisme --- Emotions --- Ethics --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Eudemonism --- Asceticism --- Philosophy --- Cyrenaics (Greek philosophy) --- Hedonism - Congresses --- Pleasure - Congresses --- Philosophy, Ancient - Congresses --- Plaisir (morale) --- Antiquité --- Congrès --- Renaissance
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Suis-je heureux ? L’argent fait-il le bonheur ? Une vie heureuse, est-ce une vie réussie ? Y a-t-il un droit au bonheur ? Autant de questions qui taraudent chacun d’entre nous mais que les philosophe se sont déjà posées depuis l’Antiquité. L’économie, la psychologie, la neurologie, les sciences sociales se sont, ces dernières années, emparées de ces questions pour essayer de leur trouver des réponses. Le présent ouvrage explore l’apport de la psychologie, de la neurologie, de l’économie et des sciences sociales à la réflexion sur le bonheur sous un angle non pas simplement individuel mais également social. Il envisage les conditions auxquelles la préoccupation utilitariste du « plus grand bonheur du plus grand nombre » peut aujourd’hui se formuler et trouver une réponse en envisageant par exemple si une attention sociale au déficit individuel de bonheur doit être portée ou si l’on doit compenser socialement le mal-être individuellement ressenti. L’un des mérites de l’ouvrage est donc de donner une actualité à des interrogations posées par la tradition philosophique classique en rendant sensibles à des lecteurs contemporains le sens et la pertinence qu’elles reçoivent encore aujourd’hui.
Happiness. --- Pleasure. --- Emotions --- Ethics --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Hedonism --- Gladness --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being --- Bonheur --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Philosophie --- Aspect social --- bonheur --- bien-être --- plaisir --- liberté --- accomplissement --- utilitarisme
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It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, and non-human animals arguably turn on the moral significance of various facts about consciousness. However, though work has been done on the moral significance of elements of consciousness, such as pain and pleasure, little explicit attention has been devoted to the ethical significance of consciousness.
Philosophy --- Consciousness --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- moral status --- affect --- phenomenal consciousness --- systematic account --- non-humans --- conscious experience --- valence --- humans --- nature --- Emotion --- Hedonism --- Instrumental and intrinsic value
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"If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize our utility--by working endlessly, undertaking further education and training, relentlessly marketing and selling ourselves--we are met with the steady worsening of collective social and economic conditions? In Futilitarianism, social and political theorist Neil Vallelly eloquently tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility maximisation and the common good. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary examples, from self-help literature and marketing jargon to political speeches and governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vallelly coins several terms--including "the futilitarian condition," "homo futilitus," and "semio-futility"--to demonstrate that in the neoliberal decades, the practice of utility maximisation traps us in useless and repetitive behaviors that foreclose the possibility of collective happiness. This urgent and provocative book chimes with the mood of the time by at once mapping the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, developing an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounting the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. At a time of epoch-defining disasters, from climate emergencies to deadly pandemics, countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future" -- Publisher description.
Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Methodology of economics --- Economic order --- Social history --- Neoliberalism --- Economic history --- Utilitarianism. --- Common good. --- Social aspects. --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Ethics --- Hedonism --- Philosophy --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- 2000-2099
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Wie lassen sich Glück und Nachhaltigkeit verbinden? Um die gegenwärtige ressourcenintensive Lebensweise zu überwinden, braucht es neue Leitbilder von subjektivem Wohlbefinden, die das gute Leben jenseits von Produktion und Konsum verorten. Die bisherige Debatte um Suffizienz und Postwachstum ist dabei vor allem von asketischen Idealen geprägt, welche für die Mehrzahl der Menschen nicht attraktiv erscheinen. Als eine vielversprechende Variante entwickelt Jochen Dallmer das Modell eines aufgeklärten Hedonismus, welcher das Streben nach subjektivem Wohlbefinden zu einem Beitrag für Nachhaltigkeit werden lässt. Besprochen in: Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte, 11 (2020), Johano Strasser
Bildung. --- Bildungsforschung. --- Civil Society. --- Consumption. --- Education. --- Educational Research. --- Environmental Policy. --- Glück. --- Glücksforschung. --- Happiness Research. --- Happiness. --- Hedonism. --- Hedonismus. --- Konsum. --- Materialism. --- Materialismus. --- Philosophie. --- Philosophy. --- Political Science. --- Politics. --- Politik. --- Politikwissenschaft. --- Post-growth. --- Postwachstum. --- Prosperity. --- Sufficiently. --- Suffizienz. --- Umweltpolitik. --- Well-being. --- Wohlbefinden. --- Wohlstand. --- Zivilgesellschaft. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. --- Nachhaltigkeit; Glück; Hedonismus; Politik; Philosophie; Postwachstum; Suffizienz; Konsum; Wohlbefinden; Wohlstand; Glücksforschung; Materialismus; Bildung; Umweltpolitik; Zivilgesellschaft; Bildungsforschung; Politikwissenschaft; Sustainability; Happiness; Hedonism; Politics; Philosophy; Post-growth; Sufficiently; Consumption; Well-being; Prosperity; Happiness Research; Materialism; Education; Environmental Policy; Civil Society; Educational Research; Political Science
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La pensée du jurisconsulte anglais Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) se prête particulièrement bien à une approche interdisciplinaire telle que celle qui est menée dans le présent ouvrage. Si Bentham, en effet, a consacré l'essentiel de ses travaux à des projets de réforme de la société anglaise de son temps par le biais de la codification des lois, il n'a cessé d'enrichir cette réflexion par des emprunts faits à d'autres disciplines, dans lesquelles il était également passé maître, telles la morale, la psychologie, la logique, la théorie du langage, l'économie ou la politique. Cette pensée, à la fois plurielle et ambiguë (est-elle conservatrice, réformiste, révolutionnaire ou utopique ? Est-elle descriptive, explicative ou normative ?), révèle aujourd'hui son étonnante actualité. Il est peu de thèmes juridiques contemporains qui ne trouvent en effet leur place dans l'oeuvre de Bentham : ainsi les questions de l'utilité, de la balance des intérêts, de la constitution d'une science du droit et d'une logique déontique ; ainsi les concepts de système juridique, de codification, de déontologie, de contrôle social, d'opinion publique et de majorité politique. L'intérêt de cette « relecture » de la pensée de Bentham réside dès lors sans doute moins dans l'exégèse de ses multiples détours que dans la mise en lumière de ses ambiguïtés et de ses limites qui, pour une large part, sont aussi les nôtres. Parmi celles-ci, l'oscillation constante, déjà inscrite dans les textes benthamiens, entre deux figures de l'État moderne (État libéral et État-providence), n'est sans doute pas la moins actuelle.
Bentham, J. --- Droit --- Gerecht --- Justice --- Recht --- Law --- Utilitarianism --- Utilitarisme --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Bentham, Jeremy, --- 340.12 <41> --- Ethics --- Hedonism --- Natuurrecht. Rechtsfilosofie --(algemeen)--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- -Bentham, Jeremy --- ベヌサム --- ベンサム --- 벤담 --- Utilitarianism. --- Philosophy. --- 340.12 <41> Natuurrecht. Rechtsfilosofie --(algemeen)--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Jurisprudence --- Bentam, Ieremi︠a︡, --- Bentam, Dz︠h︡eremi, --- Bentham, Jeremías, --- Bentham, Jérémie, --- 邊沁, --- Beauchamp, Philip --- Law - Philosophy --- Bentham, Jeremy, - 1748-1832 --- consommateur --- loi du 12 juin 1991 --- crédit --- emprunt --- crédit à la consommation --- mode de paiement --- Bentham (jeremy), 1748-1832 --- Science politique --- Sciences politiques --- 18e-19e siecles
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What is the worldview of 16th century academic physicians, steeped in a tradition of medicine that dates back to antiquity? How does this vision relate to the episteme of similitude, specific to Michel Foucault during the Renaissance? This book sets out to answer these questions by illuminating the medical concepts of nature, man, health, and disease; by examining the logic of physicians, and their quasi-judicial reports on unusual cases ("mirabilia") likely to cause public scandal; finally, by studying their doctrine of signs. For them, universal and human nature is protean and unstable; in order to analyze it, they use logical instruments whose fundamental imprecision they recognize. Struggling with the signs that surround them - bodily symptoms, numbers from the great book of nature, weather clues, signatures, physiognomic signs - they develop a sophisticated semiology. This study reveals the finesse of these minds, their judgment for the most part circumspect, their flexible logic, a whole set of mental instruments which allow them to understand as best they can the functioning of the world and of the people of their time; an image of the mental activity of this period which contrasts with that of Foucault.
History of human medicine --- anno 1500-1599 --- Humanities --- History, Early Modern 1451-1600 --- History, Modern 1601 --- -History --- Philosophy, Medical --- History, 16th Century --- Philosophy --- History, 17th Century --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- History of Medicine --- Early Modern History (Medicine) --- Early Modern History of Medicine --- Early Modern Medicine --- History of Medicine, Early Modern --- History, Early Modern --- Medicine, Early Modern --- Early Modern History --- Early Modern Histories (Medicine) --- Histories, Early Modern (Medicine) --- History, Early Modern (Medicine) --- History, Early Modern 1451 1600 --- Modern Histories, Early (Medicine) --- Modern History, Early --- Modern History, Early (Medicine) --- Modern Medicine, Early --- 17th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 17th Cent. History of Medicine --- 17th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 17th Century --- History of Medicine, 17th Cent. --- History, Seventeenth Century --- Medical History, 17th Cent. --- Medicine, 17th Cent. --- 17th Century History --- 17th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 17th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 17th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, Seventeenth --- Century History, 17th --- Century History, Seventeenth --- Histories, 17th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 17th Century --- Histories, Seventeenth Century --- History, 17th Cent. (Medicine) --- Seventeenth Century Histories --- Seventeenth Century History --- Pharmacy Philosophy --- Philosophical Overview --- Hedonism --- Stoicism --- Overview, Philosophical --- Overviews, Philosophical --- Pharmacy Philosophies --- Philosophical Overviews --- Philosophies --- Philosophies, Pharmacy --- Philosophy, Pharmacy --- 16th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 16th Cent. History of Medicine --- 16th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 16th Century --- History of Medicine, 16th Cent. --- History, Sixteenth Century --- Medical History, 16th Cent. --- Medicine, 16th Cent. --- 16th Century History --- 16th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 16th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 16th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 16th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 16th --- Century Histories, Sixteenth --- Century History, 16th --- Century History, Sixteenth --- Histories, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 16th Century --- Histories, Sixteenth Century --- History, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Sixteenth Century Histories --- Sixteenth Century History --- Medical Philosophy --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Histories --- History of Medicine, Modern --- Medicine, Modern --- Modern History (Medicine) --- Modern Medicine --- History, Modern --- Modern History --- 1601- History, Modern --- History, Modern (Medicine) --- Modern 1601- History --- Renaissance --- philosophie --- médecine --- Médecine --- Weltanschauung --- 15e-16e siècles --- Aspect médical
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