PLEASURE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Roger Crisp Roger Crisp asks whether hedonism is quite as bad as is often supposed. Hedonism’s decline Since the beginning of philosophy‚ many people have thought that the only thing really worth seeking in life is pleasure‚ and that the only thing really worth avoiding is pain. This is the view called ’hedonism’ (from the Greek hedone‚ meaning ’pleasure’). The ancients were fascinated by the view. Plato‚ Aristotle and the Stoics spent a lot of time coming
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Bullying: Sadistic Pleasure? Have you been humiliated‚ hurt and made fun of by other people? Have they been abusing your negligence to their actions? Have you been bullied? Or were you the one who bullied? H. No. 5496 (Anti-Bullying Act of 2012): An act requiring all elementary and secondary schools to adopt policies to prevent and address the acts of bullying in their institutions. Sadism‚ pleasure taken from inflicting pain on others‚ may lead to Sadistic Personality Disorder which is a mental
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one is two and a half year old and she too is charming in her own different way... She can wrap anyone around her little fingers.. Such an innocent face and such naughty eyes!! Right from singing nursery rhymes to driving all of us crazy‚ she finds pleasure in everything she does... She is like a sweet little
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"The lovers of what is noble find pleasant the things that are by nature pleasant; and virtuous actions are such Their life‚ therefore‚ has no further need of pleasure as a sort of adventitious charm‚ but has pleasure in itself." Ethics‚ I.8 Aristotle was a student under Plato‚ and although he did not believe in the metaphysical Forms that Plato so firmly believed in‚ he did apply an element of the theory behind the Forms. Instead‚ what Aristotle postulated was that there was some ultimate
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Less Freedom‚ More Food Is it comforting to be reliant on other countries or large companies? If food processes were shown to the public‚ would American food habits continue as they are now? In the article‚ “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry‚ the author believes that industrial agriculture is taking away the freedom that Americans have grown up to have. America has become ignorant in the ways of food and food production. Many people do not care to learn about the dangers of food‚ which is
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Born in Puerto Rico but surrounded by the influence of my Dominican mother‚ I was painfully aware of the deep-rooted governmental and economic issues of both countries. In fact‚ as a child‚ my mother would tell vivid stories of Rafael Trujillo‚ a vicious dictator that ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961. In these stories‚ my mother recalled the horrid details of governmental corruption‚ brutality‚ and famine during his era. She would speak of the economic plight of the country and how
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Engaging in pleasure that does not entail the natural world has made westernized communities be completely removed from the surrounding ecosystems and ultimately eliminates humans from what it means to live in the environment. In other words‚ socioeconomically privileged humans chose to live in a world filled with pleasure‚ a term coined by Alaimo in This is about Pleasure: An Ethics of Inhabiting‚ that removes any life or natural source from the life of a human‚ thus having the human live in a home
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during not only the ancient Greek and Roman period but as well the early Christians and Rabbinic texts. In Foucault’s book‚ The Use of Pleasure (p. 81)‚ the excerpt of moderation in the context of what “qualifies” being a man ties in with the course’s theme of gender asymmetry and how practicing ‘moderation’ geared to achieving manhood and manliness.
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GQ: What do I like about the Shea’s essay “In Praise of Peer Pleasure”? I like that it really puts a new positive mask over the negative outlook that peer pressure gets. The idea that peer pressure makes people do things that they don’t like rains true in this essay. However‚ these people are doing good things for themselves and others in return‚ without even realizing it. JW: In this essay the things that I was interested in were the studies‚ phycologist got people to do things just because they
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Bentham’s Measurements of Pleasure and Pain Jeremy Bentham was a prominent British scholar and philosopher in the late 1700s. He cultivated the philosophical scheme known as utilitarianism. Utilitarianism operated according to the judgment of actions as being moral. Actions were to be looked at in a way in which one could determine whether or not they could produce happiness or pain. In his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation‚ he defines the principle of utility. He states
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