Pleasure
It’s taken me a long time to feel at home in my own skin. (Even now I may not be the whole way there. I sometimes ignore the feeling that I’ve had enough to eat for instance.) The story about me getting comfortable in my own skin is entwined with my experience of Evangelical Christianity. [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called A Real Pleasure. It is about how we aren’t quite only pleasure seekers (or at least seekers of immediate obvious pleasure) and how ‘reality’ isn’t quite so simple either (we are part of the picture – reality isn’t just [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real life blog called What is a Good Life? I survey the three common answers to the question (pleasure, self-development and meaning) and argue that instead of being in competition that each one is a part of a good life. I hope you like it. [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is exploring how much pleasure is the ruling value of life. And if it’s not does suffering have a positive value? I think these are difficult but very important questions. It was a difficult post to write but I hope it [...]
Image by sunshinecity A couple of posts ago I asked for questions – and I sure got one. Here is a part of it: “I’d like to know what you know about abused and abuser, masochist and sadist. The thing that most interests me, is the possibility of one person understanding well enough what is [...]
