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Sludds, Paul. "Hedonism, well-being, and death." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489098.
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This thesis discusses theories of well-being with an emphasis on defending a particular kind of hedonism (what I will refer to as 'simple hedonism'). I hope to so show that hedonism as I construe it is tenable as a theory of well-being. Furthermore, will show that it compares favourably to rival theories. In the latter chapters I will explore the putative implications of this theory for the possibility that death is a misfortune for the one who dies. In doing so I will also consider in broader terms the plausibility of Epicurus' claim that death could never be a harm.
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Carpenter, Amber Danielle. "Hedonism on trial : a study in Plato's Philebus." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/hedonism-on-trial--a-study-in-platos-philebus(9ab86335-84cc-4c78-9d02-45f4c848fe57).html.
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In what follows I shall attempt to trace the anti-hedonist arguments presented by Plato in his late dialogue, the Philebus. I shall at the same time try to bring out the rationalist approach to ethics that is offered as an alternative. I shall argue that the rationalism put forward by Plato in this dialogue is distinctive and valuable. Although I shall say little about this, the project is offered in response to the recent enthusiasm in contemporary ethics for Aristotle. I shall therefore try to bring out the distinctive concerns about character and integrity that motivate Plato's approach to ethics in the Philebus. In the light of this, I hope to make clearer how certain apparently disparate concerns are in fact part of a single project, and to bring out what gets lost when we lose sight of this unity. By focusing attention on hedonism, I shall argue, Plato is able to work out a sophisticated moral psychology, and indeed an approach to thinking about morality and psychology, that differs importantly from a more familiar `building-blocks' approach to understanding persons. It is, I hope to show, by dealing simultaneously with methodology, metaphysics and psychology that Plato's view of the place of reason in a well-lived human life becomes interesting and perhaps even plausible. If, in the end, it is still `the philosophical life' that is the best, this will be because of the very specific way in which a life will be allowed to count as philosophical.
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Campbell, Stephen Michael. "Phenomenal well-being." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3834.
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Hedonism is not terribly popular as a theory of well-being. And there are good
reasons to question whether hedonism even supplies the best account of happiness. Yet
hedonism captures something important, and it will be the goal of this essay to articulate
just what that is. I suggest that hedonism provides the best account of phenomenal wellbeing
(PWB). PWB is a restricted form of well-being that relates to the quality of the
experience of a lifeÂor, in other words, the quality of oneÂs phenomenal life. If wellbeing
is characterized as Âhow well oneÂs life goes, then PWB is Âhow well oneÂs life
goes for her, from the inside. In rating a lifeÂs PWB, the life is judged solely on the
basis of the contents of the experience of that life rated against the experience of the
individualÂs other possible lives. Unlike well-being, PWB is guaranteed to track more
robust experiential benefits that a person gets out of living a life.
In this work, I discuss the concept of well-being, including the feature of subjectrelativity
that is sometimes ascribed to it; then, after introducing the concept of a
phenomenal life, I develop the concept of phenomenal well-being. I propose what I take
to be the best available account of PWB, which involves the hedonistic concept of
satisfaction. An epistemic model of life-comparison (inspired by Peter RailtonÂs full information account of well-being) on which phenomenal lives are judged on the
criterion of satisfaction is presented, followed by some objections, and replies, to PWB
as satisfaction. Finally, some rival accounts of PWB are discussed and
critiquedÂnotably, an account of cognitive life-satisfaction that resembles theories of
Âlife-satisfaction in happiness theory. The claim is that hedonism supplies the best
answer to what makes the experience of our lives go best for us. In the closing chapter, I
make some suggestions concerning the significance of this fact.
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Drakopoulos, Stavros A. "The influence of hedonism on the formation of economic theory." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1840.
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The prime objective of this thesis is to show that contrary to the common belief of historians of economic thought, hedonism has played a central and a continuous role in the development of economic theory. In the process of showing this, the thesis starts with a brief examination of the origins of hedonistic ideas in the works of ancient Greeks. The next chapter Is concerned with the reappearance (after a long break of several centuries) of the basic hedonistic ideas mainly In the thought of Gassendi, Helvetius and Hobbes, and their subsequent introduction to the field of economics with the work of Bentham, Mill, Senior and Cairnes. The main elements of hedonism (although somewhat modified) were also observed in the economic thought of leading marginalist theorists, the subject matter of the fourth chapter, With the marginalist school, hedonistically based terms became central to economic theory and generally economic theory was characterized by an explicit hedonistic orientation. The fifth chapter discusses the attempts to downplay hedonism as found in the work of Wicksteed, Pareto and Fisher. The reasons for these attempts were the heterodox criticism and the increasing influence of positivist scientific philosophies. The discussion supports the view that in essence hedonism did not disappear but was pushed into the background. The sixth chapter assesses the modern attempts towards a neutral economic science without psychological or philosophical connotations. The works of Robbins, Hicks, Samuelson as well as the current developments are examined. As a further indication of the hedonistic influence on economic theory, chapter seven deals with a discussion of alternative economic approaches which stem from non-hedonistic paradigms. Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes are mentioned as examples of non-hedonistically oriented economists, and lexicographic choice and non-maximizing theories of the firm are suggested as examples of theories which are independent of the hedonistic framework. The general conclusion of the thesis states that in spite of the neutralization attempts and contrary to the common belief of many theorists, hedonism is still an important underlying conceptual framework of economic theory.
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Haylett, Samantha Angelina. "The applied psychology of addictive orientations : studies in a 12-step treatment context." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344102.
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The clinical data for the studies was collected at The PROMIS Recovery Centre, a Minnesota Model treatmentc entre for addictions,w hich encouragesth e membership and use of the 12 step Anonymous Fellowships, and is abstinence based. The area of addiction is contextualised in a review chapter which focuses on research relating to the phenomenon of cross addiction. A study examining the concept of "addictive orientations" in male and female addicts is described, which develops a study conductedb y StephensonM, aggi, Lefever, & Morojele (1995). This presents tudy found a four factor solution which appeared to be subdivisions of the previously found Hedonism and Nurturance factors. Self orientated nurturance (both food dimensions, shopping and caffeine), Other orientated nurturance (both compulsive helping dimensions and work), Sensation seeking hedonism (Drugs, prescription drugs, nicotine and marginally alcohol), and Power related hedonism (Both relationship dimensions, sex and gambling. This concept of "addictive orientations" is further explored in a non-clinical population, where again a four factor solution was found, very similar to that in the clinical population. This was thought to indicate that in terms of addictive orientation a pattern already exists in this non-clinical population, and that consideration should be given to why this is the case. These orientations are examined in terms of gender differences. It is suggested that the differences between genders reflect power-related role relationships between the sexes. In order to further elaborate the significance and meaning behind these orientations the next two chapters look at the contribution of personality variables and how addictive orientations relate to psychiatric symptomatology. Personality variables were differentially, and to a considerable extent predictably involved with the four factors for both males and females.C onscientiousnesws as positively associatedw ith "Other orientated Nurturance" and negatively associated with "Sensation seeking hedonism" (particularly for men). Neuroticism had a particularly strong association with the "Self orientated Nurturance" factor in the female population. More than twice the symptomatology variance was explained by the factor scores for females than it was for males. The most important factorial predictors for psychiatric symptomatology were the "Power related hedonism" factor for males, and "Self oriented nurturance" for females. The results are discussed from theoretical and treatment perspectives.
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Козинцева, Тетяна Олександрівна, Татьяна Александровна Козинцева, Tetiana Oleksandrivna Kozyntseva, and А. В. Трофименко. "Феномен гедонізму." Thesis, Cумський державний університет, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/47591.
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Зацікавленість у феномені гедонізму як напряму думки і
життєвої позиції набирає обертів, адже все людство, отримавши
більше вільного часу, не знає, як з ним повестися. Трьох речей ніколи
не вистачає людині: щастя, задоволення і часу [2]. З'явившись близько
400 р. до нашої ери у Стародавній Греції завдяки Аристиппу
Кіренському, гедонізм як теоретичний конструкт та духовна практика
залишається затребуваним до сьогодення.
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Matias, Milenne Ferreira de Sousa. "De remédio à bebida da felicidade: sociedade hedonista através das propagandas da Coca-Cola." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9090.
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The consequences of modernity led to great social changes that affected the composition of cultures, which brought about transformations of traditions, community ties and, consequently, the transmission of memory. The present work proposes to understand the social time in which we are inserted, analyzing the advertisements of Coca-Cola from the period of 1886 to 2015, with a representative sample on the main themes addressed in its campaigns throughout its history. The hypothesis that guided the present work is that the social time in which we live is not repressive - that compels individuals to dull autonomy - but rather hedonic, defined by the ideal of happy life, guided by the "pleasure principle" and the "Orgasmic experience" (Zigmund Bauman) as the analytical category of social behavior (PIRES).
As consequências da modernidade acarretaram em grandes mudanças sociais que afetaram a composição das culturas, o que ocasionou transformações das tradições, dos laços comunitários e, consequentemente, da transmissão da memória. O presente trabalho propõe compreender o tempo social em que estamos inseridos, analisando as propagandas da Coca-Cola do período de 1886 a 2015, com uma amostra representativa sobre os principais temas abordados em suas campanhas ao longo de sua história. A hipótese que orientou o presente trabalho é a de que o tempo social em que vivemos não é repressivo – que compele os indivíduos ao embotamento da autonomia – mas sim hedônico, definido pelo ideal de vida feliz, guiado pelo “principio do prazer” e a “experiência orgástica” (Zigmund Bauman) como categoria analítica do comportamento social (PIRES).
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Marti, Silas de Souza. "Territórios de exceção: resistência e hedonismo em ruínas urbanas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16136/tde-23062017-083413/.
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Territórios de exceção é uma investigação sobre o impacto e influência de espaços abandonados e arruinados na trama das cidades contemporâneas, entendidos neste estudo como ruínas urbanas. Nos últimos anos, a ruína urbana vem se configurando como território de exceção no tecido metropolitano. Elas são espaços para atividades clandestinas, em especial a prática de festas alternativas. Também servem de arena de circulação de novas estéticas e linguagens artísticas e influenciam novas tendências comportamentais que se refletem na arte contemporânea e na cultura pop. Escrito entre São Paulo e Detroit, o trabalho descreve experiências com as ruínas pós-industriais da cidade norte-americana e outros tipos de ruínas urbanas em São Paulo, em grande parte fruto de movimentos do mercado imobiliário e negligência de órgãos de preservação do patrimônio histórico e artístico. O objeto deste estudo é o culto contemporâneo à ruína, que se manifesta na ocupação de cinemas, fábricas, túneis, teatros, praças, viadutos e outros espaços urbanos em estado de ruína ou que tiveram seu uso subvertido por práticas hedonistas e artísticas. Seu objetivo é refletir sobre como esses espaços influenciam o imaginário coletivo na metrópole contemporânea e se organizam como plataforma de novas proposições urbanísticas.Exceptional territories investigates the impact and influence of abandoned and ruined spaces in the fabric of contemporary cities, spaces regarded here as urban ruins. In recent years, urban ruins have established themselves as territories of exception in metropolitan environments. These are spaces used for clandestine or illegal activities, especially alternative parties. They also operate as spaces of circulation for new aesthetic and linguistic propositions and influence behavioural traits that have helped shape contemporary art and pop culture. Written in São Paulo and Detroit, this study describes experiences with post-industrial ruins in the American city and other kinds of urban ruins in São Paulo, often associated with real estate speculation and the neglect of heritage preservation authorities. The object of this study is the contemporary fixation on ruins, which manifests itself in cities through the occupation of abandoned cinemas, factories, tunnels, theatres, public squares, overpasses and other urban spaces in a ruinous state and whose use has been subverted by artistic practices. Its objective is to describe how these spaces influence the collective unconscious in the contemporary metropolis and reflect on how they operate as platforms for new urban planning propositions.
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Persson, Martina, and Rashid Yakhyaev. "Autenticitet inom backpacking : En studie som undersöker autenticitet och hedonism inom backpacking." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38687.
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Denna studie undersöker autenticitet och hedonism inom backpacking. Postmodernismen har lett till en homogenisering gällandede destinationer som backpackers besöker och aktiviteter de utför. Autentiska upplevelser blir således svårare att hitta samt urskilja på grund av den rådande massturismen. Denna studie mäter svenska backpackers uppfattningar och beteenden gällande autenticitet, med hjälp av en enkätundersökning som besvaras av 203 respondenter. Datainsamlingen presenteras i form av tabeller samt beskrivande text och analyseras med hjälp av ett teoretiskt ramverk som innefattar autenticitet, backpacking, hedonism samt välmående. Resultatet visar att svenska backpackers uppfattningar samt beteende har störst koppling till existentiell autenticitet och att den hedonistiska njutningen är en del av den moderna backpackern.This study explores authenticity and hedonism in backpacking. Postmodernism has led to a homogenization in regards to the destinations that backpackers visit and the activities they perform. Authentic experiences are thus much more difficult to find and discern due to the prevailing mass tourism. This study measures Swedish backpacker's perceptions and behaviors regarding authenticity, using a questionnaire survey that is answered by 203 participants. Data collection is presented in the form of tables and descriptive text that is analyzed using a theoretical framework which includes authenticity, backpacking, hedonism and well-being. The result shows that Swedish backpacker's perceptions and behaviors are most closely linked to existential authenticity and that hedonistic enjoyment is part of the modern backpacker.
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Stedman, Jeffrey N. "Perfectionism, value pluralism, and the human good." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3215294.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 24, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269).
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Huta, Veronika. "Pursuing pleasure versus growth and excellence : links with different aspects of well-being." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85919.
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Throughout history, two conceptions of happiness have been advocated. The hedonic ideal, which often predominates in modern Western societies, advocates enjoyment and avoidance of pain. The eudaimonic view argues that fulfillment comes from personal growth and excellence. This research was among the first empirical comparisons of eudaimonic and hedonic pursuits in terms of their actual relationships with happiness.One study was conducted with a single questionnaire (117 participants) and a second used detailed experience-sampling (100 participants). In the majority of analyses, hedonic activity was linked with greater positive affect and lower negative affect than eudaimonic activity was, while eudaimonic activity was associated with greater meaning in life and higher personal expressiveness (i.e., authenticity, involvement, fulfillment, and feeling alive). These results suggest that positive and negative affect (more emotional and visceral) could be called hedonic well-being, while meaning and personal expressiveness (subtler, require thought, and involve feeling more integrated and right than good) might be called eudaimonic well-being. The findings also underline the limitations of assessing only hedonic happiness, as is usually done---it can lead to inaccurate conclusions about the benefits of eudaimonic pursuits.
The results also suggested a trade-off in time between the benefits of hedonic and eudaimonic activities. The links between hedonic activity and well-being were strongest during the activity but often weakened with time. In contrast, the links between eudaimonic activity and happiness were weakest during the activity but became stronger with repeated eudaimonic efforts. People with frequent eudaimonic interests were also happier during many activities, even hedonic ones, than those with few eudaimonic projects; such increased enjoyment was not experienced by people with frequent hedonic pursuits. These results are consistent with theories that hedonic activities produce immediate satisfaction but that it fades with time, whereas eudaimonic strivings are challenging but increase well-being in the long run. Eudaimonic activities may promote well-being by building personal capital, e.g., coping skills, improved life circumstances, and deeper appreciation of life experiences.
These findings suggest that the modern preoccupation with enjoyment and comfort is an incomplete ideal. People probably need significant eudaimonic pursuits to experience meaningful and lasting fulfillment.
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Leibowitz, Lisa Shoichet. "On hedonism and moral longing the Socratic critique of sophistic education in Plato's "Protagoras" /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2006.
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Baird, William P. "Friends with Benefits: Other Regard in Epicurean Ethics." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/94.
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Friendship and hedonism are both major components of Epicureanism. I attempt to relieve the tension that seems to follow from endorsing both of these. I argue that Epicurean friendships require valuing a friend’s well-being in the same way as one’s own and that embarking on such friendships is what David Schmidtz terms a maieutic end – one that is achieved by taking on a new set of ends. This conception fits with other-regarding concern that is espoused throughout the Epicurean texts discussing friendship and, as I argue, remains consistent with other psychological and ethical commitments of Epicureanism.
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Curry, Fred. "Motivation matters a critical analysis and refutation of evolutionary arguments for psychological altruism /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1174953093.
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Giourgas, Thomas. "Well-being, education and unity of the soul in Plato." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9714.
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Is Socrates in the Protagoras a sincere hedonist? The decipherment of the latter question is fundamental to the unraveling of key aspects of Plato’s ethical thought. It has been suggested that Socrates in the Protagoras finds hedonism philosophically attractive for it functions as a necessary anti-akrasia premise and therefore it fits his moral psychology. At the same time quantitative hedonism provides for commensurability of moral value and, in turn, for a more straightforward, quantifiable, and action-guiding Platonic ethical theory. Although initially appealing, the latter hypothesis is deeply problematic. On the one hand, hedonism is not a necessary theoretical tool either for commensurability of value or for a quantifiable eudaimonistic ethical theory. On the other hand a hedonistic interpretation of the Protagoras would result in a plethora of blatant anomalies for Platonic ethical theory as it is exhibited in the early and middle period dialogues. In particular, the endorsement of quantitative hedonism comes tied with an apotheosis of sophistic education and also with a purely instrumental conception of virtue which contradicts cardinal components of Socrates’ and Plato’s virtue theory. Therefore, a prohedonistic approach of the Protagoras is untenable and has to be rejected. As a result, a sufficiently plausible defense of the Socratic doctrine “no one does wrong willingly” needs to be constructed on non-hedonistic grounds. My suggestion is that we should recast Plato’s treatment of akrasia in terms of two – commonly defended by early Plato- descriptive theses of human psychology; that is, psychological eudaimonism and motivational intellectualism. This move will lead us to the conclusion that the traditional conceptualization of akrasia as a single and unified phenomenon is incomplete as it does not pay justice to the richness of Plato’s moral psychology. Rather, as I will maintain, there are two types of akrasia implicit in Plato’s treatment of the phenomenon: synchronic akrasia and diachronic akrasia. On this revisionary theoretical basis, the differences between early Plato and later Plato on akrasia can be understood as variations in the adherence or not to psychological eudaimonism and motivational intellectualism.
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Swafford, Jeremy. "Sensory Playgrounds: The Architecture of Nightclubs." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1583998948198439.
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Rusch, Thomas, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Patrick Mair, and Horst Treiblmaier. "Breaking Free from the Limitations of Classical Test Theory: Developing and Measuring Information Systems Scales Using Item Response Theory." Elsevier, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2016.06.005.
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Information systems (IS) research frequently uses survey data to measure the interplay between technological systems and human beings. Researchers have developed sophisticated procedures to build and validate multi-item scales that measure latent constructs. The vast majority of IS studies uses classical test theory (CTT), but this approach suffers from three major theoretical shortcomings: (1) it assumes a linear relationship between the latent variable and observed scores, which rarely represents the empirical reality of behavioral constructs; (2) the true score can either not be estimated directly or only by making assumptions that are difficult to be met; and (3) parameters such as reliability, discrimination, location, or factor loadings depend on the sample being used. To address these issues, we present item response theory (IRT) as a collection of viable alternatives for measuring continuous latent variables by means of categorical indicators (i.e., measurement variables). IRT offers several advantages: (1) it assumes nonlinear relationships; (2) it allows more appropriate estimation of the true score; (3) it can estimate item parameters independently of the sample being used; (4) it allows the researcher to select items that are in accordance with a desired model; and (5) it applies and generalizes concepts such as reliability and internal consistency, and thus allows researchers to derive more information about the measurement process. We use a CTT approach as well as Rasch models (a special class of IRT models) to demonstrate how a scale for measuring hedonic aspects of websites is developed under both approaches. The results illustrate how IRT can be successfully applied in IS research and provide better scale results than CTT. We conclude by explaining the most appropriate circumstances for applying IRT, as well as the limitations of IRT.
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Hensel, Andréia Rosina. "A superação do consumo hedonista e a contribuição da participação popular para o enfrentamento do problema socioambiental do resíduos sólidos urbanos." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2016. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1640.
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A sociedade pós-moderna erigiu uma cultura que tem como traços característicos do indivíduo a idolatria ao consumo de bens materiais, o hedonismo, o hiperindividualismo e a apatia na participação política. O consumo, no contexto do modelo capitalista do último século, passou a ser tão intenso que superou a capacidade de sustentação dos recursos naturais repercutindo de forma danosa no meio ambiente. Esse fato fez surgir no plano normativo os direitos ecológicos que, a partir da sua inserção na Constituição Federal de 1988, redesenharam as estruturas jurídicas até então vigentes estabelecendo uma nova dimensão à noção de participação popular. A partir de então as práxis do consumo hedonista, do hiperindividualismo e do isolamento social passaram a representar uma antinomia face as condutas reclamadas pela esfera legal, quais sejam: o consumo consciente, a postura coletiva e o exercício da cidadania participativa. Para além da crise ambiental a pós-modernidade consolidou também uma crise do espírito humano onde o indivíduo, apartado de autonomia, tempo livre, equilíbrio, liberdade, sensibilidade, solidariedade, vive a Era do Vazio. Visando a superação dessa crise da civilização os direitos ecológicos traduzem não só a defesa do meio ambiente, mas também o resgate dos valores da solidariedade, da cooperação e da ética pela vida de todos os seres vivos imprescindíveis ao início da desejada superação paradigmática. Nesse sentido, a Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos representa um grande avanço no campo legislativo e também cultural na medida em que enaltece a importância da participação da sociedade na tutela do direito fundamental ao meio ambiente equilibrado, congregando o espírito de coletividade e de solidariedade no enfrentamento de questões ambientais, mais especificamente no que pertine ao manejo adequado dos resíduos sólidos. Ela propõe como instrumento gerador dessas práticas a educação ambiental, reforçando a importância desta disciplina para transposição dos atuais conceitos e valores que impedem a formação de um novo arquétipo ambiental.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2017-02-16T15:45:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Andreia Rosina Hensel.pdf: 982682 bytes, checksum: da93b85c2e5541d5f6ea0f1a884000cd (MD5)
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Postmodern society has erected a culture that has as characteristic features of the individual idolatry to the consumption of material goods,the hedonism, the hyper-individualism and the apathy in political participation. The consumption, in the context of the capitalist model of the last century, has become so intense that exceeded the sustentation capacity of natural resources reflecting in a harmful way in the environment. This fact caused to rise in the normative level the ecological rights, from its inclusion in the Federal Constitution of 1988, reshaped the legal structures in force until then establishing a new dimension to the notion of popular participation. Since then the práxis of hedonistic consumption, hyper-individualism and social isolation have come to represent an antinomy face the claimed conduct by the legal sphere, namely: conscious consumption, collective posture and exercise of participatory citizenship. To beyond of the environmental crisis the postmodernity also consolidated a human spirit crisis where the individual, deviated of autonomy, free time, balance, freedom, sensitivity, solidarity, lives the Era of Emptiness. Aiming to overcome this crisis of civilization the ecological rights reflect not only the defense of the environment, but also the rescue of the values of solidarity, cooperation and ethics for the life of all living beings essential to the beginning of the desired paradigmatic overcoming. In this sense, the National Policy on Solid Waste means a major advance in the legislative field and also cultural in the means that exalt the importance of society's participation in the tutelage of the fundamental right to a balanced environment, bringing the spirit of collectivity and solidarity in confronting environmental issues, specifically in respect to the proper management of solid waste. It proposes as the generator tool of these practices the environmental education, reinforcing the importance of this discipline for transposition of current concepts and values that prevent the formation of a new environmental archetype.
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Stern, Bastian Christopher. "Pleasure, suffering and the experience of value." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:603a9b3e-3f94-41bd-9715-1062d96384fd.
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This dissertation explores a number of interrelated metaphysical and epistemological issues regarding pleasure, suffering and their apparent value and disvalue, thematically tied together by the broad idea that pleasant and unpleasant experiences are, respectively, experienced as good and bad. More specifically, I try, firstly, to advance the debate regarding the nature of pleasure by arguing for what I shall call the "Self-Experiential View" - the view that pleasant experiences are pleasant in virtue of being experienced as good. Secondly, I assess the merits of the "Hedonic-Evaluative Acquaintance Thesis" - the natural conjecture, expressed by a number of authors, that our especially intimate experiential relationship ("acquaintance") with the evaluative features of our hedonic experiences grounds a particularly robust kind of epistemic status enjoyed by our hedonic-evaluative beliefs, which makes them less vulnerable to sceptical doubt. In chapter 1, I lay some groundwork for the ensuing discussion, by introducing a number of background claims which help to motivate these two theses. Moreover, I isolate two specific important ways of unpacking the Hedonic-Evaluative Acquaintance Thesis and clarify some central concepts which feature prominently in the subsequent chapters. In chapter 2, I defend the "Self-Experiential View." I proceed by addressing a number of objections which have been levelled against the view in the literature, and locate it in relation to the views which currently dominate the debate regarding the nature of pleasure. In chapter 3, I assess and ultimately reject the first important version of the Hedonic-Evaluative Acquaintance Thesis singled out in chapter 1, the "Naïve Realist Hedonic-Evaluative Acquaintance Thesis," which states that Naïve Realist acquaintance with pleasure's evaluative nature grounds a distinctive, especially robust kind of epistemic status enjoyed by our hedonic-evaluative beliefs. In chapter 4, I assess the "Introspective Hedonic-Evaluative Acquaintance Thesis", the attempt to vindicate the Hedonic-Evaluative Acquaintance Thesis by extending an acquaintance account of phenomenal introspective justification to the hedonic-evaluative case. By carefully unpacking a range of different candidate conceptions of introspective acquaintance, I home in on what I consider the most appealing acquaintance account of phenomenal introspection, and argue that it should not be extended to the hedonic-evaluative case, which means that this proposal also fails. A brief concluding chapter summarises the key conclusions of the dissertation and highlights some questions raised in the course of my discussion which would seem to warrant further investigation.
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Schaffner, Dorothea. "Hedonism versus accuracy : the impact of motivation and emotion on the valuation of multiple gains and losses /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016095225&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Abdelrahman, R. M. "From heritage to hedonism : the repositioning of the tourist image of Egypt : a key informant qualitative inquiry." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/321805.
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This thesis provides an examination of the managerial policies adopted by the Egyptian tourism sector in planning and implementing the repositioning of the image of Egypt from the mid 1960s onwards. It aimed at augmenting its traditional cultural identity with an additional hedonistic dimension, derived from the development of beach resort tourism on the Red Sea coast. In addition to exploring the specific elements of the Egyptian repositioning, including an evaluation of its success, the study seeks to identify from the analysis, the key issues and managerial requirements involved in the repositioning of destinations in general, and proposes a preliminary model of the content and sequencing of the repositioning process. The study employed a qualitative methodology involving ethnographic fieldwork with key informants, chosen as representatives of the main categories of stakeholders who participated in Egyptian tourism planning of the repositioning programme. It took its direction and procedures from an adaptation of Grounded theory, in which three main sources of data were collected and appraised: ethnographic interview responses, direct observation, and documentation generated both internally and externally. The results revealed by this study suggest that, though total tourist flows generally increased after the repositioning, and the proportion of tourists visiting the Red Sea beach resorts, rather than the cultural locations, also increased, the lack of proper evaluation mechanisms of the programme made it difficult to attribute causally these changes to public sector managerial decisions, rather than to other variables in the broader external environment (world tourism growth trends, power of the international operators, price competitiveness, etc.). Moreover, in analysing the mechanics of the programme, a number of key areas of deficiency in strategic planning and marketing practice were identified. These deficiencies included: weak or non-existent marketing research; poor market targeting and product portfolio analysis; inadequate planning and evaluation procedures; weak communication, and integration of effort between stakeholders; and limited awareness of cutting edge promotional practices. The normative model of repositioning offered at the end of the Results section of this study seeks to address some of the problems and deficiencies disclosed in the Egyptian case study, by suggesting some of the desiderata of best practice when destinations need to augment, modify, or change their image.
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Sparr, Lina, and Frida Wälivaara. "Det bästa av två världar : En kvalitativ studie om förhållandet mellan upplevelser och relationer i en pop-up butik." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65484.
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Denna studie ämnar till att undersöka och analysera pop-up butiker för att kunna bidra med en ökad kunskap kring detta nya fenomen. Vårt främsta syfte är att undersöka hur företagets behov av att skapa relationer och kundens önskningar om att få en upplevelse möts i kontexten av en pop-up. För att få en förståelse kring detta avser studien även att undersöka vilka bakomliggande motiv företag har för öppnandet av en pop-up butik.This study aims to investigate and analyze pop-up stores in order to contribute to increased knowledge about this new phenomenon. Our main purpose is to investigate how the company's needs to create relationships and how customers wish to get an experience come together in the context of a pop-up. In order to gain an understanding of this, the study also involves investigating the underlying motives companies have for the opening of a pop-up shop.
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Knutsen, Håvard Tautra. "Experiments with hedonism, anticipation and reason in synaptic learning of facial affects : A neural simulation study within Connectology." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-9578.
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Connectology consist of three basic principles with each their own synaptic learning mechanism: Hedonism (the Skinner synapse), Anticipation (the Pavlov synapse) and Reason (the Hume synapse). This project studies the potentials and weaknesses of these mechanism in visual facial affect recognition. By exploiting the principles of hedonism, a supervision mechanism was created with the purpose of guiding the Pavlov synapses' learning towards the goal of facial affect recognition. Experiments showed that the network performed very poorly, and could not recognize facial affects. A deeper study of the supervision mechanism found a severe problem with its operation. An alternative supervision scheme was created, outside the principles of Connectology, to facilitate testing of the Pavlov synapses in a supervised setting. The Pavlov synapses performed very well. The synapses correctly anticipated all affects, however one of the four affects could not be discriminated from the others. The problem with discriminating the fourth affect was not a problem with the Pavlov learning mechanism, but rather of the neuronal representation of the affects. Hume synapses were then introduced in the hidden cluster. This was done to facilitate the forming of neuronal concepts of the different facial affects in different areas of the cluster. These representations, if successfully formed, should allow the Pavlov synapses to both antipate and discriminate between all facial affects. The forming of concepts did not happen, and thus the Hume synapse did not contribute to better results, but rather degraded them. The conclusion is that the Pavlov synapse lends itself well to learning by supervision, futher work is needed to create a functioning supervision mechanism within the principles of Connectology, and the application of the Hume synapse also calls for futher studies.
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Miller, J. Joseph. "Quality and Competence: An Analysis of the Role of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism on his Conception of Representative Democracy." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36581.
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Traditionally, John Stuart Mill has been described as a transitional thinker who fails to fully understand the values he espouses. Critics contend that he cannot simultaneously espouse both utility maximization and the protection of individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. Like his moral philosophy, Mill’s political thought is also rejected for interspersing, seemingly at random, elements of utilitarianism with concerns about respecting individual choice-making. More recent attempts to bring Mill’s commitment to utilitarianism into line with his respect for individual choice-making are not wholly successful. In this thesis, I offer an interpretation of Mill’s moral philosophy which reconciles the tension between utility maximization and respect for individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. In addition, I argue that my interpretation of Mill’s moral philosophy also allows us to interpret his political thought.Master of Arts
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Hackmann, Max M. "Icons of Hedonistic Perfection: Mel Ramos’ Paintings 1963-1969." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276999207.
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Sitar, Mathilda, and Fredrik Sjöberg. "To shop or not to shop? : A study on consumers' motivation for visiting physical retail stores during Covid-19 and how it is justified." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22331.
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Covid-19 has affected people’s lives due to the restrictions and recommendations. The Swedish public health authority urged the residents to abstain from being in indoor environments such as stores, therefore is the action seen as a misbehaviour. Meanwhile, city centres are dying, therefore are the consumers facing a difficult dilemma. The purpose of the present thesis was to investigate why consumers chose to shop in PRS during the pandemic and how the behaviour was justified. The thesis was written from a consumer's perspective and focuses on generation Z. The theoretical framework was based on hedonic and utilitarian motivations, which explains the consumers' motivation to shop in PRS while the Neutralization theory explains how the actions were justified. A qualitative study was used, and the empirical data was collected through a time- and event-contingent diary design. 17 participants were chosen through a convenience sample. A combination between three theories map out how consumers reasoning throughout the process. The findings showed that the pandemic had an impact on consumers behaviour and that both hedonic and utilitarian motivations affect consumer intentions to shop in PRS. The findings also showed that consumers frequently justified their action by referring to the fact that the restrictions and recommendations were followed. We also found a pattern on how different motivations are justified similarly.
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Jacobsson, Josefine, Elin Nilsson, and Lotta Åström. "Turism och Shopping : En studie i hur branscherna kopplas samman i dagens postmoderna samhälle." Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-2604.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom metodologisk triangulering ur ett kundperspektiv undersöka de grundläggande faktorerna till varför turism- och shoppingindustrin kan kopplas samman och skapa shoppingturism. En etnografisk studie utfördes genom en triangulering av kvantitativa och kvalitativa metoder för att belysa ämnet shoppingturism från konsumentens synvinkel. Den primära metoden utgjordes av två kvantitativa enkäter med shoppingturister samt observationer. För att få ett ytterligare djup gjordes kvalitativa intervjuer med branschfolk och Gekås besökare.
Postmodernismen och dess innebörd har lett till att shopping och turism kan ses som en enhetlig näring. Tre begrepp binder dem samman: upplevelse, hedonism och utilitarism. Begreppet shoppingturism har kommit att bli centralt inom den gemensamma näringen, vilket också visade sig i undersökningen då majoriteten ansåg att shopping och turism hör ihop.
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Pépin, Elsa. "Agréable désordre? : le domaine du plaisir dans deux romans de Prévost." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83138.
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The objective of this thesis is to analyse the evolution of the concept of pleasure in the literature and the history of ideas of the beginning of the 18th Century in France, through the study of the upheaval of sensibility carried out by Prevost's worried hedonism. In order to better understand the progressive transition of the semantic and lexicological concept of pleasure in the theoritical literature, we examine the philosophical and moral treaties on pleasure as well as the definitions found in the dictionnaires of the time. The study then focuses on two novels by Prevost: L'Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut and L'Histoire d'une Grecque moderne. These novels stage two experiences of pleasure which contribute to shape a new architecture of man characterised by instability and inconsistance. Prevost's hedonism redefines the position of the social, moral and psychological being according to certain features which lead to a particular aesthetic of disharmony.
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Aso, Miranda Laura. "El triunfo de la apariencia sobre el ser. La construcción de la identidad mediante el consumo continuo de experiencias y su exhibición en redes sociales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673015.
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Esta tesis parte del vínculo entre economía, cultura y sociedad establecido por autores clásicos como Weber, Simmel y la Escuela de Frankfurt. Tiende un puente entre la sociedad del consumo conspicuo de bienes materiales descrita por Veblen, donde regía una lógica de notoriedad posteriormente apoyada en el símbolo tangible de la marca, y la sociedad del postfordismo basada en la eficiencia just in time, en la que el individuo debe construirse a sí mismo ante la falta de referentes tradicionales como la familia y la religión. Debido a que los valores postmaterialistas que guían su conducta son frágiles, encuentra en el consumo una herramienta para forjar su identidad, siguiendo una lógica de autoafirmación. Concretamente, la halla en el consumo continuo de experiencias (término acuñado a raíz del protagonismo de las experiencias en la economía de servicios) y en su comunicación en redes sociales. Ambas dinámicas conforman juntas una tendencia social hegemónica situada en un plano intangible. Para argumentarlo, se utilizan teorías que hacen de bisagra entre el nivel social y el individual, como la dramaturgia de Goffman y el interaccionismo simbólico de Mead. Aplicando éste, la persona (“self”) se constituye en la continua interrelación entre el contenido proveniente de redes sociales (“mí”, llamado interacciones potenciadoras) y el generado como respuesta (“yo”, llamado interacciones comunicadoras). Se concluye que el consumidor ya no sólo participa en el proceso productivo como apunta Ritzer sino también en el publicitario, al crear contenido en las redes consideradas en la tesis (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube). Éstas estimulan la demanda de experiencias cada vez más variadas y novedosas, acelerando tanto la sofisticación de la oferta como el hedonismo experiencial, mientras aseguran su perpetuación y ejercen el papel de los mass media. Los ciclos de consumo y retorno de la inversión tienden a reducirse, el capital y los stocks parecen rotar más y el alquiler/ lo intangible se privilegia sobre la propiedad/ lo tangible.
El estudio de la identidad permite ver cómo la sociología sirve a la comprensión del comportamiento del consumidor y es aplicable en ciencias sociales como el marketing, el turismo o el management; también en psicología social porque proporciona un marco de referencia para la investigación del FOMO (fear of missing out), que operativiza el constructo consumo continuo de experiencias. Para que los hallazgos se apliquen de forma ética, es necesario tener en cuenta que lo descrito sucede a costa del individuo, de su deshumanización y la debilitación de su sistema moral, que en vez de oponerse a la deriva del mercado la refuerza y anuncia el colapso de la civilización occidental. Al buscar la felicidad eudaimónica, el actor social se topa con la hedónica y la confunde con ella, dándose una relación dialógica entre ambas. La identidad que adquiere es: 1) estandarizada (resultado de la influencia uniformadora del mercado y las modas), 2) revisable (temporal y ansiosa), 3) imaginaria (fruto de una autoimagen engrandecida). Se perciben cinco consecuencias directas: falta de autoestima, falsas expectativas, insatisfacción, vacuidad y coste de oportunidad. Se detecta que las relaciones de amistad basadas en determinados valores como la libertad, la autenticidad y la empatía, contrarios a los presentes en la identidad estandarizada, revisable e imaginaria, pueden representar una alternativa.
La investigación se efectuó en 2019, en una etapa anterior a la COVID-19. Se aplicó el análisis de contenido en 18 relatos comunicativos y 12 entrevistas semiestructuradas realizados a sujetos descontentos con el fenómeno de estudio y críticos con él, en el marco de las metodologías comunicativa y narrativa. Ambas ponen el foco en las oportunidades de transformación del individuo y su comunidad, al abrir la puerta al cuestionamiento ético de las tendencias sociales imperantes, la toma de conciencia de los procesos sociales que determinan la conducta y la adopción de estilos de vida alternativos como el consumerismo. Los ciudadanos también podrían crear redes colaborativas en comunidades regidas por principios de economía social. Por su parte, el sistema productivo podría estimular un consumo sostenible adaptado a las particularidades de los clientes que fortaleciera los vínculos entre ellos y fuera fuente de sentido existencial. La etapa venidera puede suponer una nueva aceleración de los actos de producción y consumo en un contexto de creciente inestabilidad, pero con espacio para la agencia individual y social.The present thesis begins with the link between economy, culture and society established by classical authors such as Weber, Simmel and the Frankfurt School. It builds a bridge between the consumption society of material goods described by Veblen, ruled by a logic of conspicuousness later supported by the tangible symbols of brands, and the post-fordist society based on just-in-time efficiency, in which individuals have to construct themselves due to the lack of traditional referents such as family and religion. Given the fragility of postmaterialist values guiding behaviour, individuals find a way to forge their identity in consumption, according to a self-affirmation logic. More specifically, they find it in continuous consumption of experiences (a term coined as a result of the importance of experiences in the service economy), and in its communication through social media. Both dynamics form together a hegemonic social trend at an intangible level. This is supported by theories that connect the social and the individual realms, such as Goffman’s dramaturgy and Mead’s symbolic interactionism. By applying the latter, the self is constituted by the continuous interrelationship between the social media content (“me”, the so called empowering interactions) and the content generated as an answer (“I”, the so called communicative interactions). It is concluded that consumers do not only participate in the productive process, as Ritzer points out, but also in the advertising process, by creating content in the social media platforms considered in this thesis (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube). They stimulate the demand of increasingly varied and new experiences by accelerating both the sophistication of supply and the experiential hedonism. These platforms ensure their perpetuation this way while playing the role of mass media. Consumer cycles and return on investment tend to be reduced, capital and stocks seem to rotate more, and rentals and intangible goods are encouraged more than property and tangible goods. The study of identity is useful to see how sociology contributes to understand consumer behaviour and can be applied to social sciences such as marketing, tourism or management. It contributes also to social psychology by providing a theoretical framework for the research of FOMO (fear of missing out), which operationalises the continuous consumption of experiences construct. In order to apply the findings ethically, it must be considered that the abovementioned processes take place at the expense of individuals, of their dehumanization and the weakening of their moral system, which reinforces the market drift instead of opposing it and foresees the collapse of the Western civilization. When seeking for eudaimonic happiness, social actors encounter hedonic happiness and confuse it with the former. Consequently, a dialogical relationship between them is generated. The resultant identity is: 1) standardized (because of the uniformising influence of market and trends), 2) revisable (temporary and anxious), and 3) imaginary (the fruit of a magnified self-image). Five direct consequences are perceived: lack of self-esteem, false expectations, dissatisfaction, emptiness and opportunity costs. It is detected that friendships based on certain values such as freedom, authenticity and empathy, which are the opposite of those present in standardized, revisable and imaginary identities, may be an alternative. The research was carried out in 2019, in a prior stage of COVID-19. Content analysis was applied to 18 communicative daily life stories and 12 semi-structured interviews conducted with subjects dissatisfied and critical with the phenomenon studied, within the communicative and narrative methodologies framework. Both are set on the transformation opportunities of individuals and their communities by allowing them to question the ethics of the prevailing social trends, to raise awareness about the social processes determining their behaviour and to adopt alternative lifestyles such as consumerism. Citizens may also create collaborative networks in communities governed by principles of social economy. Likewise, the production system could stimulate a kind of sustainable consumption adapted to customers’ needs by strengthening the bonds among them, becoming a source of existential sense. The coming stage might involve the acceleration of production and consumption acts in a context of increasing instability but with room for individual and social agency.
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Curry, Fred Foster. "Motivation Matters: A Critical Analysis and Refutation of Evolutionary Arguments for Psychological Altruism." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174953093.
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Smit, Johannes Petrus. "The truth about value and the value of truth." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53692.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis an attempt is made to sketch the outlines of a cognitive theory of ethics, i.e. a theory in which ethical statements are a subset of descriptive statements. It is argued that the good is a quale, and that this quale roughly corresponds to what is often referred to as "pleasure". If this conceptualisation of the good is correct, then the resulting ethical theory is a cognitive, egoist version of ethical hedonism. The thesis proceeds by relating this conceptualisation of the good to economic phenomena. An investigation is then made of the conditions under which the following of a boundedly rational rule is preferable to calculating which one of the possible options available to the actor to follow. It is argued that one such rule is that "truth" should serve as a norm of inquiry. Next the issue of "altruism" is considered. It is argued that our intuitions regarding what egoist action should be are radically untrustworthy. Considerations from evolutionary biology and game theory make it clear that an egoist actor might well be best advised to perform a number of actions that would normally be termed altruistic. The next topic concerns the relation between fact and value. Arguments that claim to undermine the distinction between fact and value are argued to be fallacious. It is also argued that the correct view of the relation between fact and value can help to clarify some of the problems surrounding the conceptualisation of "objectivity". The thesis ends by considering the gains that arise from adopting the position argued for.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis word 'n poging aangewend om 'n kognitiwe teorie van etiek, m.a.w 'n teorie waarbinne etiese stellings 'n subspesie van deskriptiewe stellings is, daar te stel. Daar word geargumenteer dar "die goeie" 'n quale is, en dat hierdie quale rofweg dieselfde objek is as wat dikwels na verwys word as plesier. Indien hierdie siening van "die goeie" korrek is, dan impliseer dit die moontlikheid van 'n kognitiewe, egoïstiese weergawe van etiese hedonisme. Die tesis poog eerstens om die verhouding tussen hierdie siening van "die goeie" en ekonomise fenomene te verduidelik. Daarna word ondersoek ingestel na die kondisies waaronder die volg van 'n begrensde rasionele reël 'n beter opsie vir 'n akteur is as om an al die moontlike opsies te kyk en die beste te kies. Daar word geargumenteer dat die idee dat die "waarheid" die doel van ondersoek moet wees een so 'n reël is. Volgende word daar gekyk na die kwessie van altruïsme. Daar word geargumenteer dat ons intuïsies insake die aard van egoïstiese optrede radikaalonbetroubaar is. Sekere kwessies in evolusionêre biologie en spelteorie laat dit blyk dat 'n egoïstiese akteur waarskynlik verskeie oënskynlik "altruïstiese" aksies behoort uit te voer. Die volgende kwessie wat bespreek word is die verhouding tussen feite en waardes. Daar word geargumenteer dat pogings om hierdie onderskeid te ondermyn nie suksesvol is nie. Daar word verder geargumenteer dat die korrekte siening insake hierdie verhouding sekere probleme insake die verstaan van "obkjektiwiteit" kan ophelder. Die tesis eindig deur die voordele wat uit spruit uit die aanvaarding van die posisie wat hier voor geargumenteer word.
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Tännsjö, Torbjörn. "Ought We to Enhance Our Cognitive Capacities?" Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-31675.
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Ought we to enhance our cognitive capacities beyond the normal human range? There is no denying that it might be a good idea to level out differences between people with respect to cognitive capacities, and there is no denying that some persons' reaching beyond normal capacities may have some good side-effects on society at large (but also bad side-effects, of course). But is there any direct gain to be made by having ones cognitive capacities enhanced? Will this as such make our lives go better? No, I argue, or, at least, there doesn't seem to exist any evidence suggesting that it would. And it doesn't matter whether we consider the question from a narrow hedonistic perspective, from a more refined hedonistic perspective, from a desire-satisfaction view, or if we adopt some reasonable objective list view of what makes a life go well. Only on an extremely perfectionist — and implausible —view of what makes our lives go well could any direct value in cognitive enhancement find support. Finally, there are no good reasons to do with our sense of identity to enhance even our capacity to remember. So, cognitive enhancement as such would not make our lives go any better.Author count: 1
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Mills, Dominic, and Maximilian D´Alessandro. "Varför internationell marknadsföring : En studie om internationella marknadsföringsstudenters motivationer bakom deras programval." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Industriell ekonomi och organisation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-48107.
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Abstract Date: 2020/06/02 Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration, 15 cr Institution: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University Authors: D’alessandro Maximillian & Mills Dominic (1995/02/11) (1998/09/26) Title: Why international marketing? - A study on the underlying motivational factors behind international marketing students choice of higher education Tutor: Andreas Pajuvirta Keywords: Motivation, students, consumer behaviour, hedonism, utilitarism, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation Research question: Which motivational factors affect students when choosing the international marketing programmes in Sweden? Purpose: The aim of this study is to contribute to a greater understanding of the existing, limited research regarding the motivational factors behind international marketing students choice of course. Furthermore, the study aims to create a holistic view of what motivational factors affect international marketing students when choosing their course. Method: The study commenced with a quantitative approach, where a survey-study was employed in order to create a holistic view of the respondent’s motivations behind their academic choice. In order to delve further into these motivational factors, a qualitative focus-group was also used. The study’s collected data has been coded, grouped, and analysed with the study’s theoretical framework in mind. Furthermore, the study’s research question and purpose have been used as the outline for the closing chapters. Conclusion: This study has shown that international marketing students employ a utilitarian manner of thinking, where they prioritise future possibilities and the end-goal when choosing higher educational courses. This utilitarian way of thinking is founded on an intrinsic motivation which is connected to their inherent interest for marketing.Sammanfattning Datum: 2020/06/02 Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 hp Institution: Akademin för Ekonomi, Samhälle och Teknik, EST, Mälardalens Högskola. Skribenter: D’alessandro Maximillian Mills Dominic (11/02/1995) (26/09/1998) Titel: Varför internationell marknadsföring? - En studie om internationella marknadsföringsstudenters motivationer bakom deras programval Handledare: Andreas Pajuvirta Nyckelord: Motivation, studenter, konsumentbeteende, hedonistisk motivation, utilitaristisk motivation, intern motivation, extern motivation Frågeställning: Vilka motivationsfaktorer ligger till grund för studenters utbildningsval på de internationella marknadsföringsprogrammen i Sverige? Syfte: Syftet med studien är att tillföra en större förståelse till den befintliga, begränsade, vetenskapliga forskningen kring de motivationsfaktorer som ligger till grund för internationella marknadsföringsstudenters utbildningsval i Sverige. Studien ägnar sig åt att skapa en sammanställd bild av vad som motiverar internationella marknadsföringsstudenter till att studera vid deras valda program. Metod: Studien inleddes med en kvantitativ ansats där en enkätundersökning utfördes i syfte att sammanställa en helhetsbild av respondenternas motivationer. I syfte att skapa en djupgående förståelse av dessa motivationer utfördes även en fokusgrupp av en kvalitativ karaktär. Studiens insamlade data har kodats, tematiserats och sedan analyserats med hjälp av studiens teoretiska referensram. Studien förhåller sig dessutom till dess syfte och frågeställning i utformningen av hela arbetet, men särskilt i studiens diskussion, samt slutsats. Slutsats: Denna studie visar att internationella marknadsföringsstudenter agerar utifrån ett utilitaristiskt tankesätt som överväger framtida möjligheter. Detta utilitaristiska tankesätt grundas i en intern motivation som är kopplat till deras intresse för ämnet marknadsföring.
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Shepherd, Barrett James. "'Party Season: A Screenplay-Based Inquiry into Filming and Judgment, with Accompanying Essay'." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2430.
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Party Season is about sex and speech and employs some of the conventions of the porn film. Apparently inconsequential 'filler' scenes and dialogue link the pay-off scenes of vividly depicted sex. Except that, in Party Season, this relationship is gradually reversed - the scenes of excessive behaviour becoming 'filler' scenes linking the pay-off moments, the latter often embedded in deliberately extended 'unrealistic' dialogue. A key component of this as a piece of inquiry-based practice is the exploration of this altering balance and of how action and dialogue can function to produce such a reversal of conventionality. The intention with the accompanying essay is to sustain a progressive interweaving of reflective commentary and analytical vignettes. There is also an intended symmetry here - an 'excessive' essay (long, without conventional subheadings, breaks, etc.) will sit alongside the 'excessive' screenplay as its twin of sorts, a different style of invention. The essay is to speech what the screenplay is to sex.
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Temane, Qambeshile Michael. "Dynamics of context and psychological well-being : the role of subjective health perceptions, personality factors and spirituality / Qambeshile Michael Temane." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/911.
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There is a lacuna in the field of positive psychology as far as the conceptualisation of
influences of environmental contexts on psychological well-being is concerned, and there
is also a lack of credible empirical findings on the dynamics of processes involved. The
aim of the current study was to test various models on the possible mediating role of
subjective perceptions of health, personality factors and spirituality in the dynamics of
context and psychological well-being.
Psychological well-being was conceptualised and measured multi-dimensionally
as defined from a general psychological well-being, hedonic, and eudaimonic
perspective. Context was defined in terms of the historical stratification in South African
society by socioeconomic differentials pertaining to race, socioeconomic indices and
infrastructural resources.
An availability sample of 5 14 participants from Potchefstroom (n=384) and
Mafikeng (n=130) completed questionnaires on psychological well-being, subjective
perceptions of health, personality factors and spirituality after informed consent was
obtained. Psychological well-being was measured with the Affectometer 2 (Kammann &
Flett, 1983), the Sense of Coherence Scale (Antonovsky, 1987) and Satisfaction with Life
Scale (Diener, Larsen and Griffin, 1985). General psychological well-being was defined
and operationalised in terms of the degree of sense of coherence, satisfaction with life
and affect balance; hedonic well-being in terms of the degree of satisfaction with life and
affect balance, and eudaimonic well-being in terms of the degree of sense of coherence
and satisfaction with life. Subjective perceptions of physical health was measure with the
General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg and Hillier (1979); Agreeableness and
Extraversion as personality factors with the NEO- Personality Inventory - Revised of
Costa and McCrae (1992); and Spirituality with the Spiritual Well-being Scale of
Paloutzian and Ellison's (1979).
The findings indicate, firstly, that perceptions of physical health (article I),
personality factors (article 2) and spirituality (article 3) mediate the relationship between
contexts and psychological well-being. Secondly, that the hedonic model of
psychological well-being (albeit variably conceptualised in article 1 and articles 2 and 3)
overall, yielded the highest amounts of variance. Thirdly, the results also indicated
differences among the two predominantly black and white samples in terms of the roles
played by subjective perceptions of health, personality factors and spirituality in the
relationship between contexts and psychological well-being. It is concluded that due
consideration must be given to social context and the dynamics of interaction between
social ecology and individual factors in order to make a meaningful contribution to the
understanding and promotion of psychological well-being. Theoretical and practical
implications of these findings are indicated.Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Van, Zyl Llewellyn Ellardus. "The development and evaluation of positive psychological interventions aimed at happiness / Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10376.
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One of the great challenges for positive psychology is that academics, researchers and authors are yet to reach agreement on the terminology, constructs and methodology of the various positive psychological concepts and interventions. One such concept that has been ambiguously and often inconsistently conceptualised is happiness. Interventions that are structured around these conceptualisations have produced mixed results, which are attributable to various aspects such as the unidimensional conceptualisation of the concept, inconsistent measurement, psychometric measuring instruments that have not been validated for the population in question, and fragmented intervention methodologies. Research was, therefore, needed regarding happiness and the development of interventions aimed at increasing happiness. Therefore, this thesis aimed to investigate the concept, manifestation, measurement and development of happiness and positive psychological interventions (PPIs) within a tertiary educational environment. A mixed method research approach was followed to reach the research objectives. The first study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of positive psychological assessment measures, and to determine the relationship between flourishing and academic performance within a tertiary educational institution. A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was used to address this objective. The Mental Health Continuum Long Form, Positive and Negative Affect Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale were administered and indicated acceptable levels of internal consistency. The MHC-LF would need to be adapted for future studies within the tertiary educational environment. No significant correlations could be established between academic performance and flourishing. However, cross-tabulation indicated some evidence of the impact that flourishing/languishing had on academic performance. Individuals with moderate levels of flourishing typically performed in the „above average‟ to „excelling academically‟ range. Languishing individuals performed at the lower levels of the academic performance spectrum. The results indicated that a large number of individuals within this tertiary educational environment were languishing. Flourishing students experienced higher levels of positive affect and satisfaction with life, as well as lower levels of negative affect than their languishing and moderately flourishing counterparts. The second study aimed to investigate the main streams of research on happiness, the approaches/models flowing from these philosophies and the methodology of happiness interventions. A quantitative meta-analysis of the literature was used to address the aforementioned research objective. Seeing that the literature presents with such incongruent findings regarding the effectiveness of PPIs, research was needed to establish how happiness should be conceptualised, which moderating factors should be addressed in this conceptualisation, and what the content of PPIs should be. A qualitative meta-analysis of the literature indicated that happiness is approached from either a hedonic, eudaimonic or integrated approach. These philosophies gave birth to a stream of scientific literature regarding happiness and its various conceptualisations, namely (a) Subjective well-being; (b) Hedonic well-being; (c) Eudaimonic well-being; (d) Psychological well-being; (e) Flourishing, and (f) Authentic happiness. Furthermore, the results highlighted three causes for failing interventions: (a) unidimensional models/approaches towards happiness, (b) targeting the concept of happiness instead of the mediating factors; and (c) fragmented methodological interventions. The study suggested a multidimensional model for happiness and happiness interventions. Furthermore, the study proposed a multifaceted methodology for happiness interventions, comprising self-administered intentional activities, group-administered interventions and individual coaching.
The third study aimed to evaluate a PPI aimed at increasing happiness of students in a tertiary educational institution. A longitudinal pre-experimental research design was used to address the aforementioned research objective. Qualitative data were used to explore the findings further. The results indicated that the overall happiness of a student may be increased through developing individuals on both an emotional and psychological level. The results showed some scientific merit to a multifaceted approach towards PPIs. The PPI affected all the aspects conceptualised in this study except for two components of authenticity, namely authentic behaviour and relational orientations.PhD, Industrial Psychology, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2012
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Aufderheide, Joachim. "The value of pleasure in Plato's Philebus and Aristotle's Ethics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2105.
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This thesis is a study of the theories of pleasure as proposed in Plato’s Philebus, Aristotle’s EN VII.11-14 and EN X.1-5, with particular emphasis on the value of pleasure. Focusing on the Philebus in Chapters 1 and 2, I argue that the account of pleasure as restorative process of a harmonious state in the soul is in tension with Plato’s claim that some pleasures are good in their own right. I show that there are in fact two ways in which pleasure (and other processes of the soul) can have value in the Philebus. The tension in Plato’s position arises because he focuses exclusively on only one way in which pleasure can have value. Chapter 3 deals with Aristotle’s response to Plato in EN VII.11-14. According to the standard interpretation only complete activities (such as thinking and seeing) can be pleasures in their own right, but not incomplete activities (such as eating and drinking). Since this interpretation attributes to Aristotle both an implausible view and a bad response to Plato, I offer a novel interpretation of EN VII.12 according to which the central contrast is not between complete and incomplete activities, but between states and their use. This interpretation is more faithful to Aristotle’s text and gives him a better response to Plato. In Chapter 4 I turn to the central claim of EN X.4-5 that pleasure perfects an activity. I argue that we cannot understand how pleasure functions unless we take into account the state whose activation is perfected by pleasure. In particular, the agent’s disposition of being a lover of a certain activity (an attitude which belongs to the activated state) is crucial for explaining why the agent takes pleasure in it. The focus on the agent’s attitude highlights that the value of pleasure does not depend solely on the value of the activity (as many interpreters assume). I suggest instead that pleasure is valuable when and because it is an appropriate response to a given situation.
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Alvarez, Casas Dajhana. "Representación del hedonismo en videos musicales de la década de los 90s. Un análisis al contexto sociocultural y su impacto en la videografía de la banda peruana “NOSEQUIEN Y LOS NOSECUANTOS”." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657500.
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Durante la década de los 90s, el Perú se encontraba en una situación política inestable debido a conflictos internos previos y a cambios que ocurrían en el mundo. La población, entonces, adopta una actitud pragmática en búsqueda de la reconstrucción nacional; actitud que puede verse reflejada en la producción artística de la época. Frente a este contexto, el presente trabajo de investigación busca analizar cómo se representa el hedonismo en los videos musicales de la banda peruana “Nosequien y los Nosecuantos” durante los años 90. Para su desarrollo; en un primer momento, se explicará el papel del videoclip dentro del proceso comunicativo. Posteriormente, definiremos el hedonismo como doctrina moral. Y, por último, se describirá el contexto sociocultural de los 90s en el Perú. Este artículo de investigación se basará en una visión del mundo interpretativa y se realizará bajo un enfoque cualitativo. Asimismo, la técnica metodológica que se usará para la obtención de datos será la del análisis de contenido.During the 1990s, Peru was in an unstable political situation due to previous internal conflicts and changes that occurred in the world. Population, then, adopts a pragmatic attitude in search of national reconstruction; attitude that can be seen reflected in the artistic production of the time. In this context, this research work seeks to analyze how hedonism is represented in the music videos of the Peruvian band “Nosequien y los Nosecuantos” during the 90s. For its development, at first; the video clip role in the communication process will be explained. Subsequently, hedonism will be defined as a moral doctrine. And finally, the sociocultural context of the 90s in Peru will be described. This research article will be based on an interpretive worldview and will be done with a qualitative approach. Likewise, the methodological technique that will be used to obtain data will be that of content analysis.
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Siqueira, Elizabete Regina Almeida de. "O estatuto contemporâneo das identificações em sujeitos com marcas e alterações corporais." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2009. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=369.
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No contexto do culto hedonista do corpo e da ascensão do subjetivismo da vontade ao topo da escala de valores dos sujeitos contemporâneos, detectamos a existência de uma modalidade de identificação horizontal com aqueles que têm os mesmos traços de gozo, como por exemplo, entre aqueles que marcam o corpo. Partindo desta perspectiva este estudo articula dois elementos: o corpo marcado e as vicissitudes das identificações em tempos de fragilidade de referências simbólicas consistentes. Realizamos uma análise clínica a partir dos pressupostos da psicanálise dos dados de fala de quatro sujeitos que submetem seus corpos a tatuagens e alterações corporais. Esta pesquisa encontrou três sujeitos para quem seus corpos são palco de paixões que aí se inscrevem como forma de apelar por um lugar e pelo reconhecimento do Outro, e um sujeito que apresenta a peculiaridade de ancorar seu ser em suas modificações corporais e está identificado a uma insígnia de gozoIn the context of hedonistic cult of the body and the rise of subjectivism will the top of the range of values of contemporary subjects, we detected the existence of a horizontal mode of identification with those who have the same traits of enjoyment, for example, among those that mark the body. From this perspective this study combines two elements: the body affected and the vicissitudes of identifications in times of weakness of symbolic consistent. We performed a clinical analysis from the assumptions of psychoanalysis of the speech data of four individuals who submit their bodies to tattoos and body changes. This research found three subjects for whom their bodies are the site of the passions that then fall as a way to appeal for a place and recognition of the Other, and a guy who has the peculiarity of their being anchored in your body changes and is identified with a emblem of joy
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Bruursema, Kari. "How individual values and trait boredom interface with job characteristics and job boredom in their effects on counterproductive work behavior." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001996.
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Strahm, Melissa Marie. "Epicurean Friendship: How are Friends Pleasurable?" unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07152009-110815/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.Title from file title page. Timothy O'Keefe, committee chair; Andrew I. Cohen, Sandra Dwyer, Andrew Altman, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 11, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62).
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de, Millo Cole. "Gaze not upon the * : Paganism and history use within digital games." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100115.
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This bachelor thesis goal is to explore how paganism has expressed itself within the world of digitalgames through three different examples. It builds onto already existing research around videogames and history use as well as my own term paper that touched upon this subject. This thesis willbe done using academic literature concerning digital games, history use and paganism from Russiaas well as Japan.
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Alegría, Carrasco Daniela, Lara Javiera Berríos, and Tobar Camila Díaz. "Hedonismo en el turismo médico." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/116659.
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Seminario para optar al título de Ingeniero Comercial, Mención AdministraciónEsta investigación tiene por objetivo, realizar un análisis con respecto al consumo Hedonista en el Turismo Médico. Para esto, en primera instancia se hará una revisión conceptual de los términos: “Hedonista”, y de esta manera poder profundizar en este concepto, posteriormente, se ahondará en el concepto “Self Construal”, concepto que se refiere a las percepciones que las personas tienen acerca de sus pensamientos, sentimientos y acciones en relación a los demás. Por último, se hablará del concepto de “Turismo Médico”, donde se revisará a profundidad su definición con sus respectivos autores, y además, se expondrán todos los países que están explotando esta nueva industria, que hoy en día resulta ser muy atractiva. Luego de la revisión bibliográfica, se hará un análisis por medio de test de diferencia de medias, con datos recopilados por medio de cuatro tipos de encuestas que se realizaron a jóvenes universitarios. Estas encuestas, se hicieron en base a dos países, Estados Unidos y Colombia, ambas poseen dos tipos de historias, en las cuales se les ofrece un tratamiento dental en dichos países, sin embargo un tipo de historia es más hedonista que la otra. Para este análisis se contó con grupos de comparación llamados variables independientes, dividiéndose en tipo de historia, hedonismo, colectivismo e individualismo, y riesgo país. También, se contó con variables dependientes, siendo estas Manipulation Check, Actitud, y finalmente Intención de compra. Para poder ver el comportamiento de los encuestados, es decir, si las historias fueron detectadas como más y menos hedonistas, se realizó un “Manipulation Check, y además, se hizo un análisis de la percepción del riesgo país de los encuestados. En el caso de la Actitud y la Intención de compra, se utilizaron las variables independientes para comprobar entre los diferentes grupos, cuál era el comportamiento de cada uno de ellos. Las conclusiones demostraron que las personas que fueron catalogadas como más hedonistas presentaban una mayor intención de compra del servicio, y una actitud más favorable.
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Rouet, Fanny. "Montaigne et l'hédonisme antique à la fin de la Renaissance : discours et pensée du plaisir." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3000.
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Ce travail traite de la pensée du plaisir à la fin de la Renaissance et particulièrement dans les Essais de Montaigne, au regard des philosophies hédonistes antiques, cyrénaïsme et épicurisme. Au XVIe siècle, la multiplication des éditions, traductions et commentaires des textes de philosophie ancienne et des recueils doxographiques met au jour les questions éthiques que se posent les auteurs grecs et latins sur la nature et la valeur du plaisir. Nous nous interrogeons sur les liens problématiques entre plaisir et morale à cette époque, marquée par les guerres de religion et la Contre-Réforme ; nous nous demandons de quelle nature et de quelle teneur sont les discours sur le plaisir dans cette période de pénitence. Les traités de civilité prescrivent les plaisirs convenant au gentilhomme, tels les plaisirs de la conversation, de la lecture, du jeu ; ces activités plaisantes et l’agrément qu’elles procurent paraissent nécessaires au développement du gentilhomme. Mais l’expression et la représentation des plaisirs voluptueux est beaucoup plus problématique, comme la référence aux hédonistes antiques, communément représentés comme des impies débauchés. Contrairement à la pensée commune qui déforme souvent les propos et les vies des théoriciens du plaisir, Montaigne se distingue en interrogeant le rapport du plaisir à la morale et en examinant l’expérience du plaisir comme une expérience de soi. L’abondance et la fréquence des citations et références aux hédonistes antiques dans les Essais témoignent certes de leur influence, mais surtout de leur rôle de matériau dans une réflexion critique sur le plaisirThis work deals with the reflection about pleasure in late French Renaissance, especially in Montaigne’s Essais, considering the ancient Hedonistic schools of philosophy, i.e Cyrenaics and Epicureanism. In the sixteenth century, the increase in numbers of editions, translations and commentaries on texts of ancient philosophy and doxographic collections brings to light the questions of ethics raised by the ancient Greek and Latin writers about the nature and the value of pleasure. We shall explore the problematic links between pleasure and morals at the time of religious wars and Counter Reformation. We shall question the nature and the content of the discourses on pleasure in that period of penitence. Treatises on civility prescribe the pleasures suitable to the gentleman, such as conversation, reading and game. These pleasant activities and the enjoyment they impart seem to be necessary in the making of the gentleman. However, the expression and the representation of voluptuous pleasures is much more problematic, as is shown for instance by the references to the ancient Hedonist philosophers, generally portrayed as impious profligates. In contrast with the common view, often distorting the discourses and the lives of the theorists of pleasure, Montaigne distinguishes himself by questioning the link of pleasure in relation to morals and examining the experience of pleasure as an experience of the self. The numerous and frequent quotations and mentions of ancient Hedonist philosophers in Montaigne’s Essais, testify to their influence but, above all, to their role as material in a critical reflection about pleasure
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Nord, Erik-Axel, and Marcus Wagell. "Bostadsrättspriser i Uppsala - en hedonisk studie." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5952.
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M, Bashir Ayoub. "Tillämpning av hedonisk prissättning på bostadsrätter : En analys av bostadsmarknaden i Uppsala." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25261.
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Syftet med denna studie är att analysera vad det är som påverkar bostadspriserna på Uppsalas bostadsmarknad. Det är spekulanternas önskemål och krav, det vill säga deras betalningsvilja som påverkar priset. Det kan skilja sig mellan olika spekulanter men för det mesta ses ett tydligt mönster. Spekulanter värdesätter t.ex. områden som ligger nära centrum. Detta kan bero på att Uppsala är en studentstad där det är många studenter som rör sig från och till staden varje år. Bekvämlighet och närhet till bland annat universitet väger in mycket. Studiens statistik kommer från en av Uppsalas största mäklarbyråer Widerlöv & Co. Möjligheten att bolla tankar och idéer med några av deras mäklare som har varit aktiva i branschen länge har varit värdefull.The purpose of this study is to get an overview of what it is that affects housing prices at Uppsala's housing market. My conclusion is that speculator´s willingness to pay is effected by their wishes and demands. Speculator´s appreciate the areas close to the city center. This may be due to Uppsala is a university town where there are many students who are moving from and to the city every year. For example convenience and proximity to university is often a high wish. I had access to statistics from one of the Uppsala´s largest real estate agency Widerlöv & Co. I also had the opportunity to discuss ideas with some of their brokers who have been active in the industry for a long time.
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Engstedt, Andreas. "Arenabygget, ris eller ros? : en hedonisk prisstudie av kommuninvånarnas värdering av den nya arenan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-248036.
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This study is an examination of the stadium fever prevailing in Sweden. It is built stadiums in Sweden as never before. The high cost of these constructions end up in the end at the Swedish taxpayers. The study examines through the hedonic pricing of real estate how local residents value the new stadiums. The result indicates that local residents put a positive value in the costly and sumptuous buildings. The study includes 44 stadium constructions in 37 municipalities and is the first of its kind in Sweden.Denna studie är en granskning av den arenafeber som råder i Sverige. Det byggs idrottsarenor i Sverige som aldrig förr. De stora kostnaderna för dessa byggen hamnar i slutändan hos de svenska skattebetalarna. Studien undersöker genom hedonisk prissättning av fastighetsmarknaden hur kommuninvånarna värderar de nya arenorna. Resultatet indikerar att kommuninvånarna lägger ett positivt värde i de kostsamma och praktfulla byggena. Studien omfattar 44 arenabyggen i 37 kommuner och är den första i sitt slag i Sverige.
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Long, Runfeng. "Impacts of shopping malls on the housing price - Evidence from Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277926.
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Shopping malls, as an important type of commercial facilities, are growing dramatically.They have gradually become one of the most dominant factors that can influence people's daily life as well as a city's economic development. People's willingness to pay for dwellings is also primarily associated with the surrounding commercial layout.Hence, it is of interest to find out more from a quantitative perspective on the relationship between shopping malls and housing prices. This study aims to analyzehow the prices of condominiums will be affected by the proximity of shopping malls.Two aspects are considered and examined in the empirical study, namely a proximity to the shopping mall, and the number of shopping malls within 3 kilometers radius. Wetry to examine if there is any price premium for those apartments near the shoppingmall or with more shopping malls in the neighborhood. In this empirical study, 36shopping malls in different locations in the county of Stockholm, Sweden, is utilized.The sample of transactions consists of 336,914 apartments. By using regression analysis, based on the traditional hedonic model, the results show that there is an inverse relationship between the apartment prices and its distance from the shopping mall while the number of shopping malls is positively correlated with apartment prices.Köpcentra som en viktig typ av kommersiella anläggningar växer dramatiskt dessa år. De har gradvis blivit en av de mest dominerande faktorerna som kan påverka människors vardag och en stads ekonomiska utveckling. Människors villighet att betala för husen på marknaden är också till stor del kopplad till den omgivande kommersiella utformningen. Därför är det nödvändigt för oss att ta reda på mer i ett mer kvantitativt perspektiv om förhållandet mellan köpcentra och bostadspriset. Denna studie syftar tillatt diskutera hur priset på bostäder kommer att påverkas av köpcentra. Två aspekter beaktas och undersöks under en empirisk studie, som är närheten till köpcentret och den andra är antalet köpcentra inom 3 km avstånd. Målet är att avslöja om det finns något prispremie för dessa fastigheter nära köpcentret eller med fler köpcentra i närheten. I denna empiriska studie tas 36 köpcentra på olika platser som prov i Stockholms län, Sverige. Sedan kommer transaktionsdata där proverna består av 336,914 lägenheter behandlas och analyseras i Stata. Genom att använda giltiga transaktionsdata, kombinera med matematiska ekvationer och obligatorisk statistiskkunskap, är syftet med denna studie att beskriva och sammanfatta data för att sedan genomföra regressionsanalys baserat på fyra hedoniska modeller, inklusive både linjär och log-linjär form. Regressionsresultatet är signifikant vid 1% konfidensnivå, vilket innebär att de förklarande variablerna verkligen har betydande effekter på de beroende variablerna. Resultaten visar att det finns en omvänd relation mellan bostadspriset och dess avstånd från köpcentret. Medan antalet köpcentra är positivt korrelerat med bostadspriset.
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Svensson, Andrei. "Kommunalki & Cottages : En beskrivning och hedonisk analys." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7624.
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Denna uppsats beskriver bostadsmarknaden i S:t Petersburg i två delar. Den första redogör för dess uppbyggnad i termer av arkitektur, stadsdelar och ägande – inklusive det rätt unika bostadsformen kommunalka – kollektiva lägenheter där individer äger enstaka rum och delar på kök och badrum. Därefter redogörs de främsta faktorer bakom utvecklingen på den under de tio åren fram till 2006. Bland dessa är det stora missnöjet med befintliga bostäder, en omfattande nybyggnation i stadens ytterkanter och den kraftiga utvecklingen på hypotekslånemarknaden.
I den andra delen görs en hedonisk prismodell utifrån en logaritmisk regressionsanalys av 16 000 bostäder till salu i stadens största bostadsguide där pris är den beroende variabeln och bostädernas egenskaper som yta, stadsdel, avstånd till centrum och arkitekturstil är de oberoende variablerna. Utifrån resultaten redogörs möjliga förklaringar till de olika egenskapers relativa effekt på bostadspriser. Resultaten jämförs slutligen med en liknande studie på bostadsmarknaden i Riga.
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Guimarães, Fernando Gavronski. "Direitos culturais e o utilitarismo liberal de John Stuart Mill." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/139207.
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A presente dissertação trata do problema dos direitos culturais sob a ótica do utilitarismo liberal de John Stuart Mill. Objetiva-se a inserção da filosofia política do autor nas discussões que vêm sendo travadas nas últimas décadas por liberais e comunitaristas a partir da colocação do problema filosófico da identidade. Para tanto, busca-se desfazer frequentes equívocos e apresentar uma leitura integrada da filosofia de Mill com base na análise criteriosa de seus escritos, auxiliada por seus mais eminentes intérpretes. Pretende-se demonstrar que é de uma fundamental e prévia compreensão utilitarista, bem como de uma particular posição acerca do modo de acesso à verdade, que decorrem as convicções liberais e a centralidade da autonomia individual em seu pensamento. Estabelecidas essas premissas, verifica-se que o estado milliano, ao dispensar a convicção na neutralidade da esfera pública que decorre do pensamento liberal contratualista usualmente professado, mostra-se compatível em tese com a tarefa de garantir direitos culturais. Ao mesmo tempo em que sua visão ampla acerca dos bens que contribuem para a felicidade é capaz de posicionar a cultura no cálculo hedonístico individual, com reflexos na quantificação da utilidade em vista da felicidade geral, a defesa de Mill da autonomia e da diversidade parece poder justificar uma especial atenção ao contexto social que sirva para a expressão máxima da individualidade.This dissertation deals with the problem of cultural rights from the viewpoint of the liberal utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill. It intends to include the author‘s political philosophy in the debates that have been held in recent decades between liberals and communitarians starting from the approach of the philosophical problem of identity. To this end, we try to undo common misconceptions and provide an integrated reading of Mill's philosophy based on careful analysis of his writings, aided by his most eminent interpreters. We attempt to demonstrate that it is based on a previous fundamental adhesion to utilitarianism, as well as from a particular position regarding the access to the truth, that arise the liberal convictions and the centrality of autonomy in his doctrine. Given these premises, we could find that the Millian state, exempting the assumption on the neutrality of public sphere derived from the liberal contractarian doctrine usually professed, reveals itself theoretically compatible with the task of guaranteeing cultural rights. Whilst Mill‘s broad view regarding goods that contribute to happiness is capable of dragging culture into the hedonistic calculus, which affects the measurement of utility over general happiness, his defense of autonomy and diversity seems to justify a special attention to social context which maximize the expression of individuality.