The Pleasure Of Books Essay

Experience Machine The theory that pleasure is the only thing worth pursuing; the highest and most important goal in life is derived from Hedonism. The moral of Hedonism explains that pleasure brings happiness, it is good, and that of the opposite brings pain, which is bad. Those that we desire are desirable because it brings us some kind of pleasure (Mill, p. 20). Pleasure comes from an object. Because of this theory Robert Nozick shared with us in his book, the experience machine; a machine…

His first speech proposes the coldblooded passion of the “non-lover” or the wanton lover regarding carnal pleasure. Then, he delivers a second speech which begins with him discarding the truth in the prior speech and refers to true beauty. With this book, Plato wants us to find our own understanding of the book through analysis and synthesis. This is capability to break down the whole book down and put it back together to find the truth of it ourselves. This is Plato’s dialectics. Furthermore,…

important and popular philosopher in the 19th century. He is one of the earliest advocates of Utilitarianism. He defines the theory of utilitarianism in his book, Utilitarianism. It focuses on the general good of individual pleasure. Mill tried to provide evidence for his theory of moral utilitarianism and refutes all the arguments against it in his book. He states that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness"…

Jesha C. Lor Dr. Arbo Intro to Philosophy TR-9:30-10:45 a.m. 11/5/15 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Books I & II Recitation In book one of Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Aristotle begins with a hypothesis that he tests, which is, “The Good is that at which all things (including people) aim (what they seek). He goes to the core question, “what is it for something to be an ‘end’ of action”, to test out his hypothesis. Aristotle then explains that if there is some end that we seek for its own…

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a pleasure to to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” It’s the year 2020, Kanye is president, and books have been wiped out. Not a single book in sight. You hide one, you’ll be found and arrested, and your books will be burned up in flames. Guy Montag, a fireman, curious about books and the past, begins to adventure into an unknown world of books. One girl, it’s all it took to make Montag question everything he’s ever known. Her name…

This only increases the lack of sexual pleasure anyone in the community can receive. Under the enslavement of the Gilead government, sexual oppression is the means of control over everyone in the society. By this oppression and control, no one is capable of feeling any sexual pleasure. Therefore all enjoyment people can get out of sex is eliminated. This pleasure is eliminated out of resentment, envy, regret, the inability to love, and most importantly…

have been a fundamental skill needed for mostly everything. Unfortunately, reading isn’t as popular anymore. According to the texts “Reading for Pleasure Is in Painful Decline,” and “Twilight of the Books” the authors give their sides on what is bringing the reading rates and down and why. Although both passages gave good information, “Twilight of the Books” provided the most information on how social media and other distractions from reading are making people’s reading skills weak and could…

Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDs in the Dominican Republic, by Mark Padilla, explores the social and economic effects of the Dominican Republic’s dependency on the tourism industry, particularly as they relate to male sex workers. The abundance of opportunity in the tourism industry—as opposed to the lack thereof in, per se, agriculture—all but forces migration of the middle class and the poor to urban areas, where they can easily access popular tourist destinations,…

The yellow book became as a guidance of hedonism for Dorian Gray. It represented the profound and damaging influence that pleasure can have on the essence of an individual and serves as a warning to those who cease to surrender themselves to pleasures: “Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of…

As a person who likes to read printed books, I would like to argue that printed books are no longer necessary in this digital era as all writing can be stored electronically. As time goes by, we are getting used to a fast-paced life with the frequent use of modern electronic products, so too as the way of reading. The e-book, short of the electronic book refers to books that are created and read through modern information technology and Internet technology, which has realized paperless reading…