Hedonism

we die. The deprivation account defends that death is bad because it deprives you from the goods you would have had in your live. As such, it does not commit you to any value system and can accept a wide range of “goods”. It can be paired with hedonism, but it can also take into account alternative types of value, such as narrative unity or desert. There is a similar approach, the desire-based account, that defends that death is bad because it frustrates your categorical desires. Two…

Motivation explains that humans are motivated to avoid pain and pursue pleasure, According to Bentham, a human beings motivation to steer clear of pain and be drawn to pleasure is a moral fact. Human beings display the pursuit of pleasure (which is called hedonism) in today’s society, for example, one gets a job to live a happy life in order to avoid the hardships of being poor. Bentham viewed pleasure being the embodiment of good while pain was the embodiment of bad. The Principle…

China's crony capitalistic structural reform aggravates inequality, hence, the disconnect between economic utility and happiness. However, I notice that another cause may be the underlying difference in the principles of happiness. In the modern west, hedonism has gained influence; Confucius offered a radically distinct narrative in 'Analects', praising 'restrained happiness' and denouncing 'hedonistic'…

uses their personalities and behaviours to paint a postwar nation drawn to the glamour of materialistic wealth and corrupted by the depravity that comes with its frenetic pursuit. Each character represents a different way in which consumerism and hedonism debauched the Roaring Twenties. Myrtle Wilson is enslaved to self-gratification, willing to condone infidelity and physical cruelty in exchange for the taste of extravagant living. Jay Gatsby succumbs to moral degeneration, flaunting his wealth…

No we shouldn’t be equally concerned for everyone. Having equal concern for everyone is too challenging. It would require us to not only give up extravagances but to totally change our lives to help others that are in need of the greater good. We would be required to lower everything to the impartial promotion of general welfare and would require us to give up our plans and activities and devote ourselves full time to promoting the good of others. Utilitarianism is incapable of making a…

us better deter crime in the future. “Unlike other approaches, however, which attempt to impose a conceptual unity upon divergent criminal behaviors (by subsuming under more general concepts such as delinquency, deviance, rule breaking, short-run hedonism, criminality, etc.), our rational choice formulation sees these differences as crucial to the tasks of explanation and control. Unlike existing theories, which tend to concentrate on factors disposing individuals to criminal behavior (the…

When we think of happiness often times we think about what it takes to actually be happy. The thought of doing all the things that make you happy on one hand should satisfy and bring you happiness, but on the other some philosophers such as Daniel Haybron believe that happiness stems from a state of mind. More specifically Haybron believes that happiness is an emotional state of mind, and what that theory entails is to be happy one’s emotional condition to exhibit a sufficiently a favorable…

Going based off my previous post, this is where classical and positive criminology come into play. The classical school uses subjective factors to illustrate why criminal activities occur. These factors would include that people have the free will to choose whether or not they want to commit a crime. They also believe that the right suitable punishment can deter crime. Now the positive school of criminology; however, uses a more objective approach, such as scientific investigations and…

Throughout his lecture on Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things (OTNOT), Professor Sills argues over the value of Epicurean Philosophy in modern times, especially with many people’s concern over apocalyptic thought. Professor Sills is a strong believer in Epicureanism and he preaches its values against a strictly Stoic belief that one should exhibit strong self-control to limit pain and hardship without displaying feelings. According to Lucretius, Epicureanism's sole principle, on the other hand,…

1 Most of discussions of week one can be summed up in into one fundamental idea that is freedom. We first talked about hedonism and how is the desire for pleasure but touch upon the topic of freedom and choice. Freedom and choice are sort polar opposites since we have freedom but we are limited by our world of what we can choose. In fact fact, we do have limited freedom in our world and some that does is language. People can only understand s through language and i think terms of language and…