Pleasure and Physicality in Modern British Culture

功利主义是英国现代哲学的主流传统之一，它主张对快乐和痛苦进行定性的理解。本研究项目从“物质性”的角度重新诠释功利主义，即人类心理经验的物质性意识。在对功利主义思想重新理解的基础上，该项目随后考察了18世纪至19世纪中期英国的文化哲学现象，包括文学和其他知识分子话语中探索的感性问题。

Utilitarianism, a school of thought advocating the qualitative understanding of pleasure and pain, constitutes one of the mainstream traditions of modern British philosophy. The present research project reinterpreted utilitarianism from the viewpoint of "physicality," i.e. the consciousness of the materiality of human psychological experience. On the basis of the renewed understanding of utilitarian thinking thus obtained, the project then examined cultural-philosophical phenomena in Britain from the 18th to mid 19th century, including the issue of sensibility explored in literary and other intellectual discourses.