Hedonism

To what extent to our concepts shape our conclusions? “Informed decision making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.” Whilst Scott Adams maybe correct, there are many factors that play a role in not only the decisions you make but also the conclusions you arrive to. There are many different ways to process thinking, for example one can play by the rules or one can do what they feel is best for them, one can also do what is best for the greater…

A 16-year old boy named Kevin has been sent to The Lake County Juvenile Facility for another three months but this is not his first time. After physically attacking his mother’s boyfriend, she decides to press charges on her own son so that she could teach him a lesson. Kevin, who has been previously charged with criminal trespassing, runaway, burglary, and battering finds himself back in the facility. Kevin threatens to attack the first person who tries to enter the cell. The facility had at…

Throughout the history of human development, there are many different theories which discuss how nature or nurture aspects have strongly influenced the development of human personality. Human personality could be formed primarily either by certain characteristics or traits that they are inherited from family members, which is defined as nature or they are influenced by other environmental or social factors outside them, which is defined as nurture. The impacts of nature and nurture on the human…

When looking back on the process of my happiness project, I have noticed many developments within myself and my way of viewing the world. From the RBS analysis done by my friends and family, to the key research findings outlined in this project, I have seen growth in myself through this project, specifically the happiness activities. I began this project by selecting a few goals that would lead me to increase my happiness over the course of a semester, with help of 3 goal related happiness…

World War I was a war of the future. Armies on both sides used newly developed chemical agents and automatic weapons, leading to great devastation. This war was the culmination of the two centuries of rapid scientific and technological development preceding it, fought during a cultural period of opulence and extravagance. Thus, it may come as a surprise to find a poet like Alan Seeger. Modernity dissatisfied Seeger; he doubted it was conducive to a meaningful life or to medieval values he held…

3.3 CHARACTERISTICS OF VALUES When we think of our values, we contemplate of what is vital to us in our lifetimes (e.g. protection, autonomy, wisdom, accomplishment, kindness, pleasure). Every single of us holds countless values alongside varying degrees of importance. We can summarize the main features of the conception of basic values inherent in the writings of countless theorists and researchers as follows: • Values are beliefs. But they are beliefs tied inextricably to emotion, not…

The Enlightenment era focusing more on discipline, rules and reason of western culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. The era introduced science, philosophy, society and politics. One of the main cause for the Enlightenment was the Scientific Revolution because of its many accomplishments and breakthrough achieved in the social and political fields. The political viewpoints related of the Enlightenment was from John Locke he…

about in civil society for centuries. Ethics is the basis for sufficient moral judgement of an individual to pursue righteous actions that maintain the integrity, well-being and happiness of oneself and others. Act utilitarianism promotes universal hedonism, impartiality and judges the utility of deeds through the calculation of pleasure and pain. Virtue ethics accentuates that proper habituation leads to good ethical and practical reasoning and that virtues are the guidelines to human…

Dorian is quickly won over by Lord Henry's argument that everyone must face the horrible fact of aging, and he takes the implications of the inevitability of aging grimly. Following this realization, Dorian comments on his self-portrait “Why should it keep what [he] must [lose]” (26)? This is particularly poignant because it illustrates the transition that comes with age, one whereby the individual loses their purity. Youth, for Wilde and for Dorian, is where we maintain the sense of purity.…

The narrator of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway states: “Everyone suspects himself of at least one cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people I know.” Truth versus Lies is one of the most common themes that run through this tragic novel where everyone is blind to their own deceit yet believe that they are selfish. Jay Gatsby is the protagonist in the sense that he is a role model in the eyes of Nick; however, he builds his whole persona around…