The Problem of Pleasure

“It struck me, after reading my umpteenth book on the problem of pain, that I have never seen a book on ‘the problem of pleasure.’ Nor have I met a philosopher who goes around in head-shaking perplexity over the question of why we experience pleasure. Yet it looms as a huge question – the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem of pain for Christians.”
~Philip Yancey

“Shouldn't atheists have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness? Where does pleasure come from?”
~G. K. Chesterton (re-post)