Pleasure

generation of pleasurable emotions (Volkow, 2001). Repeated use of methamphetamine causes excessive release of dopamine and results in the loss of behavioural control (Volkow et al., 2007). This report will first introduce physiology of reward and pleasure and role of neurotransmitter…

The dystopian novels Fahrenheit 451, 1984 and Brave New World show Bradbury, Orwell and Huxley’s vision of modern society. The authors include ideas of fear, technology and pleasure in a way that predicts how they see today’s society. Although Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley have valid points of fear, technology and pleasure, Huxley’s vision of the future is the most accurate in modern society in his book Brave New World. Technology in today’s society is coming very close to the technology…

ignorance; and, secondly, an understanding of the movie can give sustenance to the calculative part of the viewer’s soul. Some may argue that Socrates’ regime in Plato’s Republic would deny the viewing of this movie as it is allows a certain sort of pleasure to enter into the city that can ultimately deteriorate from the good of the soul. The first reason why a viewing of The Truman Show would be permitted…

The opening line is, “It was a pleasure to burn” (pg. 3). But was it really? Did the instant pleasure dystopia really bring pleasure to the people in it? Fahrenheit 451 disagrees. It proves that knowledge and awareness of the world, particularly found in books, brings true pleasure. One way Fahrenheit 451 shows where true pleasure can be found is by using juxtaposition in the relationships of Montag and Mildred and of Montag and Clarisse. Montag and Mildred’s relationship stays stagnant…

classified according to the basis of the relationship. These major types of friendship are utility friendship, pleasure-based friendship, and finally friendship based on the goodness. In utility based friendship,…

what it consists of and how the good life can be reached. Lucretius, a Roman philosopher who followed the idea of Epicureanism, believed that simple pleasures and avoiding pain is happiness which leads to the good life opposed to Epictetus, a Greek philosopher who followed the idea of Stoicism, believed that one should never desire or seek pleasure whatsoever. Although Epicureanism may sound similar to Epictetus, the founder of this system of philosophy was actually Epicurus, who was Lucretius'…

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under. Therefore, the ex-lawmaker sought and acted in his own pleasure, but did his act result in his wife’s pain by not having…

nothing for you to do but now throw everything and follow Him, and if he did not, then it is nothing for you to enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can -- by killing somebody or burning his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness (O’Connor 14).” The misfit feels that if God did all that he said then it would be no problem to follow him, and the Misfit feels that he could be a better man in those circumstances. In the story, the Misfit says that Jesus…

highest good for humans is happiness. He believes that all of our actions should lead up to the ultimate end goal of happiness. Aristotle says that most humans,”identify the good, or happiness with pleasure”(p. 50). However, in order to achieve happiness we must pursue happiness rather than pleasures and we must think rationally by using our virtues. According to Aristotle, our unique human function is to be rational beings. As humans we must make rational decisions in order to be rewarded with…