National Review, April 18th, 1994
Pleasure has become unfairly associated with evil and perversion due to unsound theories by people such as Freud and Nietzsche. As a result, feelings and creations have become dehumanized and unpleasurable. Pleasure, as both intellectual and physical stimulation, makes for happier humans.
HUMAN PLEASURE may be sensual, like the pleasure of a hot bath, or intellectual, like the pleasure of mathematical proof. But the pleasures that matter most to us, and that shape our lives and personalities, are neither purely sensual nor purely intellectual, but both at once. They arise in contemplation, wh...
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