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The Interesting and the Pleasant
Volume 24, Number 1, February 2023, Pages 58–80
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I argue that interesting experiences are experientially valuable in the same fashion as pleasant experiences, yet that the interesting is nonetheless a distinct value from the pleasant. Insofar as it challenges the hedonist’s assumption that pleasure and pain are the only evaluative dimensions of our phenomenological experiences, my argument here serves both as a defense of the value of the interesting and as an important critique of hedonism.
Copyright © 2023 Lorraine L. Besser
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