Pleasure

explanations about personal experiences, experiences of others, and hedonism to explain why happiness is the only thing of intrinsic value in human life. These explanations will show that each decision we make, we make based on the happiness and pleasure they will bring to our lives therefore hedonism is true. The first explanation will show how personal experience leads to happiness and how making these decisions to better you lead to happiness. The second explanation will show how the…

Utilitarianism is based on the The Greatest Happiness Principle, which states that people should act in accordance towards maximizing one’s pleasure, while minimizing one’s pain. This is also relevant in a communal setting focusing on benefitting the majority of a group. The two philosophers that will be discussed are: Elizabeth Anscombe and Jeremy Bentham. The Anscombian point of view protests against the use of murder as a means to an end. The Bentham-style utilitarian abides by The Greatest…

person’s. Hobbes describes that everyone should seek out their pleasures and doesn’t consider the sufficiency nor insufficiency of that notion. For example, if there are people living within a society that have different pleasures that are not seem as norms, Hobbes would argue that the person should still pursue these pleasures. A society cannot prosper from this notion because not everybody has the same pleasures, or it is seen as good pleasures. If one were to have the desire to cheat on a…

The Art of Love in Renaissance Italy: An Exploration of Sensual Pleasure in Architectural Space Xiaoyi Chen FAH335 #1 Exhibition Catalogue Printed Book: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Date: 1499 Author: Francesco Colonna Location: Venice With elegant woodcutting and hybrid language, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (translated in English as The Strife of Love in a Dream) depicts…

proportion to the good consequences produced and wrong in proportion to the adverse consequences produced. Theory of the Good defines which outcomes count as good or bad by calling upon hedonism. In utilitarianism, the ultimate positive value is pleasure and the ultimate…

Alcée and Calixta both experience the passion they've been cheated of in the past by having an amazing sexual encounter. Their pleasure and happiness can't last forever as well because they are forced to go on their separate ways. The concept that money can't buy happiness can be seen in Chopin's story when relating money to sexual intercourse and the pleasure that comes with it. Alcée's husband, Bibnôt, is clueless of the situation when returning home. "Shimps! Oh, Bobinôt! you too good fo'…

manifestation of the emotional state. If the creator has a proper knowledge of human psychology, he shall necessarily present only such motives and manifestations as are accurate. Like Eliot, Bharat in his rasa theory presupposes the experience of pleasure in the heart of the creator. The creator then conveys it to the reader/spectator by the help of manifestation…

by utilizing thought experiments and is ultimately successful in undermining some forms of utilitarianism. The principle of utility, according to Mill, is the idea that actions must produce the most happiness possible. Pain and the privation of pleasure are the direct opposites of Mill’s argument for the principle of utility, or his “First Principle.” Furthermore, Mill is concerned about the end goals of our actions and how we can achieve them. He argues that since most sciences are not based…

received a degree of pleasure as a direct result of this mans death. Now, who is negatively impacted by this event? Assuming that he has a family and a few friends, let us assume that there are ten people that will be directly negatively impacted by this event. As mentioned above, the basic goal of Utilitarianism is to promote the greatest good for the greatest number. Under the Utilitarian view, the fifty thousand outweigh the ten, and therefore the calculation of net pleasure produced is…

self-praise of the world, the will to live, which views itself complacently in it’s works.” What this sentence is trying to say is that every human being should feel sure of the truth that she/he has to the greatest extent assertion to happiness and pleasure. If this does not happen then it will only leave one being to believe that she/he is at fault. She/he would then come to a conclusion that their existence no longer matter. From this happening then one’s being than becomes a denial for the…