Download or read book Distance Pleasures written by Larry Christian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Poetry Book shows the connection of passion and love beyond the physical essence of mankind and nature Distant Pleasures, to be touched not by the physical hands but, by its graceful flow, not be physically held but, embraced by every word. To become one with your most inner desires and the purest essence of nature, close your eyes picture a waterfall imagine your breathing is the roaring flow of it, your heart beat is the thunder claps of slapping waters, its coolness becomes your soul lost within Distant Pleasures.
Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pleasures written by Lonnie Barbach and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1985 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Form written by Abigail Zitin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artisans for the proverbial man of taste, asserting them as central figures in the rise of aesthetics as a field of philosophical inquiry in eighteenth-century Europe. She shows how the idea of formal abstraction so central to conceptions of beauty in this period emerges from the way practitioners think about craft and skill across the domestic, industrial, and so-called high arts. Zitin elegantly maps the complex connections among aesthetics, form, and formalism, drawing out the understated presence of practice in the writings of major eighteenth-century thinkers including Locke, Addison, Burke, and Kant. This new take on an old story ultimately challenges readers to reconsider form and why it matters.
Download or read book Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life written by Daniel Russell and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how good things bear on happiness in Plato's ethics, and shows that, for Plato, pleasure cannot determine happiness because pleasure lacks a direction of its own. Plato presents wisdom as a skill of living that determines happiness by directing one's life as a whole, bringing about goodness in all areas of one's life, as a skill brings about order in its materials. The 'materials' of the skill of living are, in the first instance, not things like money or health, but one's attitudes, emotions, and desires where things like money and health are concerned. Plato recognizes that these 'materials' of the psyche are inchoate, ethically speaking, and in need of direction from wisdom. Among them is pleasure, which Plato treats not as a sensation but as an attitude with which one ascribes value to its object. However, Plato also views pleasure, once shaped and directed by wisdom, as a crucial part of a virtuous character as a whole. Consequently, Plato rejects all forms of hedonism, which allows happiness to be determined by a part of the psyche that does not direct one's life but is among the materials to be directed. At the same time, Plato is also able to hold both that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and that pleasure is necessary for happiness, not as an addition to one's virtue, but as a constituent of one's whole virtuous character itself. Plato therefore offers an illuminating role for pleasure in ethics and psychology, one to which we may be unaccustomed: pleasure emerges not as a sensation or even a mode of activity, but as an attitude - one of the ways in which we construe our world - and as such, a central part of every character.
Download or read book The Pleasure Tours in Ireland With a Map an Itinerary on a New Plan Etc written by Ireland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours in Scotland and the Great Lines of Road in that Country Illustrated with Maps written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russell s Unknown Logicism written by S. Gandon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics , meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner of The Bertrand Russell Society Book Award 2013.
Download or read book An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours in Scotland and the Great Lines of Road in that Country Illustrated with Two Maps written by Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pleasure with Profit written by William Leybourn and published by . This book was released on 1694 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure written by and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours in Scotland written by Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.
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Download or read book Stoic Six Pack 7 The Sophists written by Xenophon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoic Six Pack 7 - The Sophists brings key primary and secondary sources together in one volume for a fully rounded understanding of this early, often misunderstood philosophical movement: The Sophists by Henry Sidgwick; Protagoras, Euthydemus and Gorgias by Plato; Memoirs of Socrates by Xenophon; Stoic Self-control by William De Witt Hyde and The Sophists - Biographical Sketches by William Smith.
Download or read book Pleasure with Profit written by Wi. Leybourn and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure with Profit. Consisting of recreations of divers kinds, Viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptograpbical, Magnetical, Automatical, Cbymacal, and Hiftorical. Published to Recreate Ingenious Spirits.
Download or read book Frontiers of Pleasure written by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers of Pleasure calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues regarding conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. Despite a recent rebirth of interest in aesthetics, extensive discussion of this key cluster of topics has been absent. Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi argues that although the Greek language had no formal term equivalent to the "aesthetic," the notion was deeply rooted in Greek thought. Her analysis centers on a dominant aspect of beauty--the aural--associated with a highly influential sector of culture that comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the "activity of the Muses," or mousikê. The main argument relies on a series of close readings of literary and philosophical texts, from Homer and Plato through Kant, Joyce, and Proust. Through detailed attention to such scenes as Odysseus' encounter with the Sirens and Hermes' playing of his lyre for his brother Apollo, she demonstrates that the most telling moments in the conceptualization of the aesthetic come in the Greeks' debates and struggles over intense models of auditory pleasure. Unlike current tendencies to treat poetry as an early, imperfect mode of meditating upon such issues, Peponi claims that Greek poetry and philosophy employed equally complex, albeit different, ways of articulating notions of aesthetic response. Her approach often leads her to partial or total disagreement with earlier interpretations of some of the most well-known Greek texts of the archaic and classical periods. Frontiers of Pleasure thus suggests an alternative mode of understanding aesthetics in its entirety, freed from some modern preconceptions that have become a hindrance within the field.
