The Experience/Quale of Pleasure as an Objective Good and the Peace of the Organism, the Experience/Quale of Suffering as a War in the Organism (Comparison with John Locke´s Qualities)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Experience/Quale of Pleasure as an Objective Good and the Peace of the Organism, the Experience/Quale of Suffering as a War in the Organism (Comparison with John Locke´s Qualities)

Original language description

The study argues that good is a value that is a kind of fact. It is a kind of conscious subjective experience, that is to say, a quale. In the experience of pleasure we obviously and immediately recognize that it is something of value. This can be ascertained on the basis of systematic introspection. That pleasure is good is shown by the method of introspection. Method of introspection was partially rehabilitated by cognitive science and cognitive psychology which at the end of the last century. The only things we really register are qualia, that is, subjective conscious perceptions, sensations. The method of introspection shows us that pleasure brings peace, inner relaxation, harmony, balance to the body of the person experiencing it. On the contrary, suffering brings war, it is a kind of tension, a tension in the organism, a state of imbalance. The harmony in the organism, i.e. the pleasure, is perceived as a positive value. On the contrary, disharmony in the body, that is, suffering, is perceived as a negative value, as a state of imbalance. It seems that pleasure is a good and suffering is bad/wrong/evil. Rational person should strive to maximize good and minimize evil. The ethical consequence of this can be called "egoistic principle": we only have to maximize our own pleasure, because we can experience (feel, perceive, own, have) only our own experiences. It seems that nobody has convincingly shown what else, another or "higher" value should be.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Rzecz piękna, mądra, dobra...tom IV. Pokój.

ISBN

978-83-62563-65-4

Number of pages of the result

10

Pages from-to

135-144

Number of pages of the book

262

Publisher name

Oficyna Wydawnicza Arboretum

Place of publication

Wrocław

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