Benatar identifies the underlying justification: For most human beings, their life is on the whole GOOD. Anyone who exists experiences pleasures (or other good things). And anyone who exists experiences pains (or other bad things). In fact, existence is a necessary condition for both of these things—that is, one MUST exist in order to experience either pleasures or pains. Furthermore, for most ...

mong all the forms of sculpture, the most interesting from a mathematical point of view may well be paper fold ing. In support of this assertion I would point out that paper folding requires a distinctive leap of the imagination from Flatland into Roundworld, from two dimensions to three. A sculptor who carves stone or models clay begins with a medium that is already three-dimensional, but the ...

What are the situations in everyday life that people enjoy and cherish? This paper presents a content and user study with two simple mobile phone applications called PosiPost to investigate this question and learn what people express as their pleasures in everyday life. Drawing from a corpus of 379 PosiPost messages that users shared, this paper presents an analysis of users’ pleasurable moment...

One day after a traffic accident the artist JI woke up to a world without colours. Like Paul Klee, he had always drawn profound pleasure from colours, but now the world suddenly felt empty and meaningless. JI had suddenly become completely colourblind, achromatopic. Not only was his way of earning a living threatened; this radical change in subjective experience brought on a profound depression...

Schopenhauer repeatedly claims that all pleasure is negative, and this view seems to play key roles throughout his work. Nonetheless, many scholars have argued actually acknowledges certain positive pleasures. Two major arguments been offered for reading, one focused on the link between Schopenhauer's of Plato's, distinction two components aesthetic pleasure. I argue neither way motivating read...