Pleasure

between Eudaimonia and hedonia as potentially different motivations, routes, or forms of well-being. This week, choose one small activity that seems eudaimonic (mostly about being your best self) and another that seems more hedonic (mostly about pleasure). Do them both. For the written portion of the assignment, write a short essay (250-300 words) that: briefly describes the activities, and why/how you identified them as eudaimonic or hedonic. Also reflect on the consequences of each. For…

just the moral choices made in a Utilitarianism manner. Utilitarianism is defined as a theory based on the actions being right if they promote happiness and wrong if they do the opposite with happiness being defined as pleasure and the lack of pain, while the definition pleasure varies in quality and quantity. Utilitarianism is also known as the Greatest Happiness Principle. John Stuart Mill the author of these essays depicting utilitarianism argued that happiness is the main foundation for…

In order for us to know they are a part of our happiness we would have to know they are coming. Based on what happiness is stated to be, which is pleasure with no pain, then in order to know what decisions will help us maximize happiness, we would have to already know the outcomes of these decisions. There is not always certainty which decisions will help maximize happiness for ourselves, or a group…

morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.” This quote, by John Stuart Mill, about Utilitarianism embodies my ethical decision making process in a way that Relativism, Deontology or any other ethical system cannot. It is for this reason that…

utility or the Greatest Happiness Principle. In Mill’s observation people misinterpret utilitarianism as an oppression to pleasure. In reality, a utility is known as pleasure itself. The principle of utilitarianism holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness. In this principle happiness are the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Pleasure and the absence of pain in the utilitarian principle are required to be inherently good. Thus, actions are good when…

daydream about it at work? Do you spend money on it, risk your career and marriage for it? Is it what you fight most about in your marriage? Do you feel the presence of God fading into and ever deepening pit of shame? Idleman then begins to discuss the pleasure paradox or the domestic paradox as philosophers call it which is where the more fiercely you chase something the less likely tour will find it. He then shows how this is true by locking at the passage in the bible after Ammon rapes Tar…

administration viewed this as a way for the University to avoid excessive drinking; lewd behavior; violence; vandalism; sexual promiscuity; and many more things from happening on campus. Bentham’s Hedonistic Calculation takes into account both the pleasure and the pain of all those involved in the situation, by using it, I will be able to determine whether closing campus causes more happiness or unhappiness.…

describing the presence of pleasure and pain in a blessed life Epicurus writes that “we are in need of pleasure only when we are in pain because of the absence of pleasure, and when we are not in pain, then we no longer need pleasure” (Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus). This quote written by Epicurus in Letter to Menoeceus describes the ability of pleasure to remove pain, however from this quote alone one could misunderstand the nature of the pleasure Epicurus suggests seeking. The pleasure one…

shares Mill’s theories of pleasure and pain. However, Bentham believed that all actions taken by individuals ought to be carried out with the intention of creating the greatest well-being for the largest possible quantity. One must assess the value of decisions and how it will serve as an instrument in the future in accordance with the given actions foreseeable intensity, duration, certainty, remoteness, its fecundity (the chances of an action yielding the same kind of pleasure or pain) and it…

creator of Cyrenaic hedonism. First off, hedonism is the philosophic though that pleasure is equal to good and pain is equal to evil. Therefore, Cyrenaic hedonism is the pursuit of intense and immediate pleasure with no qualitative distinctions among pleasures. Aristippus believed pleasure was the main motive for living and that pleasure is always good. This is just simply not true. Yes, we as human beings do seek pleasure probably more times than we think we do, but it is not our “natural goal…