The Pleasure Of Books Essay

In Richard Janero and Thelma Altshuler’s book, we learn that Aristippus, a Greek philosopher around 400 B.C.E., explained that happiness is a collection of physical pleasures throughout a person’s life. Hedonism is the term for the philosophy that happiness is derived directly from physical pleasures or by obtaining things that provide pleasure. (Janero 386) Though many may believe that physical pleasure does provide happiness, I argue that physical pleasures provide a temporary illusion of…

selfless life could not supply. Many characters turn to reading in times where other pleasures are inaccessible. When Lockwood visits The Heights, he observes Catherine Linton “reading a book… seem[ing] absorbed in her occupation” (27; ch.3). At this moment, Catherine Linton leads a tragic life, held captive in the Heathcliff residence. Stuck in a situation without pleasant company, Catherine Linton relies in books as her only source of entertainment. Through reading, she can distract herself…

Montag is a fireman that makes fires, he doesn’t put them out. Any type of book, he would burn it because the government didn’t want them to read. In the government’s eyes, reading causes people to be sad and stressed and they don’t want that. So they have these firemen that raid people's house, by others’ submission in the fire station. Fire has a lot of symbolism in this book. Since fire has to do with burning all the books by the government's command. To start it off there is a lot of…

Mill’s Utilitarianism, he explains that the amount of pleasure and pain is what dictates the morality of actions. An action is justified if it brings more overall pleasure than pain to people. While it is generally agreed upon that pleasure is good and pain is bad, I believe that these qualities by itself cannot determine morality. Utilitarianism is not the right ethical theory to follow because utility is not inherently measurable and pleasure and pain are not the only determinants of morality.…

Utilitarianism is a normative moral approach to ethics that tries to maximise the pleasure and minimises the amount of pain in given a situation. John Stuart Mill analysis the principle of Utility, Utility meaning ‘happiness’. Mill often thought it was important that in any given situation that happiness is supposed to continue to be uplifted (Mill, 1864 p.9). Mill examines, that happiness is the ultimate end in which every human lives their life to, and so anything has to be a means for that…

mostly curiosity, compared to Fisher, whose experience with sexuality was much more lived and often violent. Another key differentiation is the understanding of the connection between pleasure and sexuality…

separation.” (StatusMind). In the book “Lord of the Flies”, written by William Golding, is about a group of young boys who end up stranded on an island by themselves. While being on this island, the boys lose their sense of civilization and all become savages. As they become uncivilized, the boys end up splitting up which as a result lead to death for some of the boys; as for the other boys, they lose their sanity and became insensible. One of the main characters in the book Jack, is a good…

This story did a great job showing that your actions can have an unexpected end result. This theme portrays the philosopher Hobbes by showing that “humans strive for pleasure no matter what roadblocks stand in your way.” In the book “the colomber” the boy is told never to go into the sea again or he will be devoured. He strived for pleasure and assumed his life mission to be a sailer. He was always followed by the colomber but never felt the fear that everyone…

frustrated. How have all of these advancements effected our minds today? How is it that something that used to bring so much joy to people, has now become a point of boredom, a point that we only do when we have to. Reading, we used to get joy and pleasure from it, but now people see it as a task that they only do when its required of them. These advancements have effected how we read, and how we retain knowledge. A study…

humans get it on, whether it is for reproduction or just for pleasure. Roach has tapped into people’s curiosity about their own bodies, and the taboo functions that science avoided for so long. From going to a public display of sex machines (Roach 53-59) or volunteering her husband for sex research (Roach 123-126),…