In addressing the Lucretian symmetry problem, temporal bias approach claims that death is bad because it deprives us of something about which rational to care (e.g., future pleasures), whereas prenatal nonexistence not only remain indifferent past pleasures). a recent contribution debate on this approach, Miguel and Santos argue late beginning can deprive pleasure. Their argument based claim fo...

AbstractThe transition of the dead to world ancestors in indigenous societies goes beyond burial and physical disintegration individual. The rites attendant on absence deceased Ugbo/Benin milieu culminate final journey ancestors. This can be termed apotheosis which may considered general recognition that an ancestor could sit among other While using aesthetics as a springboard, paper establishe...

Plato links pleasure with illusion, and this link explains his rejection of the view that all desires are rational desires for the good. The Protagoras and Gorgias show connections between pleasure and illusion; the Republic develops these into a psychological theory. One part of the soul is not only prone to illusions, but also incapable of the kind of reasoning that can dispel them. Pleasure ...

since welfare, as a philosophical issue, has considered as an indication of man’s highest intellectual status and dignity, it always attracted the philosopher’s attention and they continuously asked weather: -did all philosophers agree about the same meaning of welfare? -did they agree about its determination and dimensions? -can welfare from the philosophical meaning contain religious or ethic...

John Stuart Mill’s hedonism is notoriously ambiguous. The most important ambiguity concerns his reliance on an axiologically significant notion of quality of pleasure. (Hereafter: “quality”.) His resulting “higher pleasures doctrine” has given rise to a number of interpretive disputes concerning, for instance, the nature of quality, the relative value of higher pleasures in comparison to lower ...