Pleasure

attaining pleasure is the most important aspect of daily life. Utilitarianism is “the view that we should act to promote the greatest amount of happiness (and create the least amount of suffering possible) for the greatest number of people” (Chaffee 507). This theory has transformed throughout the years, due to different…

inequality was present in the findings as both men and women reported that men are not concerned with women’s pleasure in hookups. On the other hand, the findings indicated that men are care about women’s pleasure in relationships. The authors interpret these findings are the new version of sexual double standards where sexual pleasure has become reciprocal in relationships while women’s sexual pleasure in hookups remain…

moral structures (Rawls, pg. 1).” Utilitarianism is a modern theory introduced to us by John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that results in the best action to promote and maximize utility. The idea behind this theory is to maximize pleasure while minimizing pain. However, utilitarianism is not a feasible moral theory and it cannot…

Thereupon, he would question himself on how much pain and pleasure the decision of bringing more gun control laws would bring to the society. For Bentham, any morally right actions are being derived from pain and pleasure with the central idea that each person is individually governed by their own pain and pleasure. When it comes to the issue of gun control, pain and pleasure can be found in both sides of gun control arguments. Which means that people in favor of a…

1. Autonomy is having the freedom or the right to do whatever you desire. Heteronomy means someone’s will. When someone does something that is desirable, the person’s will is drawn closer to the thing. The idea of autonomy is that people are free to choose anything they want to do and because of autonomy, everyone has the right to decide whether they want to go back to school, or stay home with their kids. In this world, we have the freedom to decide to treat everyone with respect and love each…

Morality of your action depends on the result of your actions. Morals should be promoted through utility and immoral when they promote the reverse. Also, Mill says that happiness is, “pleasure and the absence of pain,” and unhappiness is “pain, and the privation of pleasure.” His ethical theory of the greatest happiness principle, according to him is, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” All…

form of pleasure. As stated above, sex is used by big corporations as a means of appealing to the sexual drive that lives in all humans. Adding a sexual figure to the picture increases the chance of the individual actually paying attention to the product and also increasing the…

Great Happiness Principle is the morally right action that causes the greatest overall amount of pleasure, happiness, or the least amount of suffering. This can be applied in general by using the Happiness Calculus. The Happiness Calculus measures how much pleasure and pain will be brought out of a given situation. An example for the Happiness Calculus would be going to the zoo on a rainy day. The pleasure would be seeing all of the exotic animals, while the pain would be doing it in the with…

uses this as a symbol for all luxuries in life. Using symbolism, the author brings out the central theme of staying on a middle path when it comes to luxuries. One example is, “If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, “Poor man”, said I, “you pay too much for your whistle.” (Line 38-41) In this paragraph the author…

both moralities that rule men such as "inborn desire for pleasures and acquired judgment that pursues what is best". While the prior had power, the state was called “outrageousness”. At what time, the end took capability, the state was called “being in your right mind”. “Outrageousness” had several titles like the need for gluttony and the wish for drink. In contrast, for Socrates, the most powerful want was the one who wished to “take pleasure in beauty”. Moreover, when the lover was obsessed…