PLEASURE AND MOTIVATION IN KANT´S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

Ibn Sīnā’s Practical Philosophy

This article is a brief review of Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neo-Platonic influences on Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy, as well as the influence of Fārābī and of Islamic religious teachings. The creative synthesis invented by Ibn Sīnā requires a particular view of the relation between religion and philosophy in such a manner ...

Anticipatory pleasure predicts motivation for reward in major depression.

Anhedonia, the lack of interest or pleasure in response to hedonic stimuli or experiences, is a cardinal symptom of depression. This deficit in hedonic processing has been posited to influence depressed individuals' motivation to engage in potentially rewarding experiences. Accumulating evidence indicates that hedonic processing is not a unitary construct but rather consists of an anticipatory ...

Kant ’ s Defense of Human Moral

The determination of individual moral status is a central factor in the ethical evaluation of controversial practices such as elective abortion, human embryo-destructive research, and the care of severely disabled and those in persistent vegetative states. A comprehensive review of recent work on Kant’s conception of moral status reveals the need for a careful examination of the content of Kant...

Relation between Quality of Pleasure and Quantity of Pleasure in J. S. Mill’s Theory of Utilitarianism

Scales of Pleasure and Arousal 1 Children ’ s Scales of Pleasure and Arousal

This study introduces the Children’s Scales of Pleasure and Arousal as instruments to enable children to provide subjective and descriptive judgments along the major dimensions of affect. Children (N = 160, 3 to 11 years), and an adult comparison group (N = 20), used the scales to indicate the levels of pleasure or arousal they perceived in stylized drawings of facial expressions. All age group...