Pleasure

Nicomachean Ethics. “Friendship has three species, corresponding to the three objects of love. For each of love has a corresponding type of mutual loving, combined with awareness of it” (Aristotle, 121). The first two types of friendship, utility and pleasure, are relatively fragile. These types of friendships are only good for as long as our wants and desires remain the same. Once they change it affects what we find useful or pleasurable leaving the friendship prone to dissolution. For…

singing nightingale (citation). This interpretation of the poem becomes even more apparent when it is considered that at least part of Keats’ poem has its origins in a twenty-line section from The Pleasures of Melancholy (citation), by Thomas Warton - the same section even contains the line: “Is there a pleasure like the pensive mood / Whose magic wont to sooth your soften 'd souls?” (citation). This form of introspective, soul-searching beauty is the crux of the poem, from the undying…

for you, you feel good about yourself, do good things for yourself, and have many good experiences. When you make choices that are bad for you, you feel bad about yourself, do bad things to yourself, and have many bad experiences. One road leads to pleasure, the other, pain... Have you ever wondered why people do things that are clearly harmful to their health? Perhaps it's because they really don't feel they have a choice. This is why the alcoholic reaches for booze, the junkie for drugs,…

feel certain that they will be happy to see me. Because my aunt invited me, I will assume that she will enjoy seeing me. To give this decision a numerical score, I will use the utilitarian calculus2, and score based on what I believe will be the pleasure or pain for all those in attendance. The utilitarian calculus was developed by philosopher Jeremy Bentham to determine which action is morally…

In this essay I plan to clearly summaries the philosophical arguments of Benedict - Morality Is Relative, Rachel - Morality Is Not Relative, Kant - The Moral Law, and Mill - Utilitarianism. All of these arguments contain different theories of human nature being swayed by laws and morality. I will categorize which arguments focus on the absolutist view, which holds that there is exactly one right answer to everything. As well as labeling which argument leaning to a more objective side, where all…

idea, happiness must be the good. We only strive for these attributes in order to make ourselves happy; thus, happiness is good (Aristotle, 2002, p. 3). Aristotle describes three lives in order to lay out the best pathway to happiness: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the contemplative life. This analysis will focus on the kinds happiness…

These short stories, The Symposium by Plato and The Kama Sutra illustrate that individuals want what they are unable to have to stratify their cravings. Exactly like Socrates stated in The Symposium, ‘’…probable but absolutely certain that one desires what one lacks, or rather that one does not desire what one does not lack…’’ (Plato 76). This quotation is stating that an individual who owns something that another desire can attract the person that desire what they possess. The purpose of…

Pleasure one might get from sight and sound of a poem is subjective. Intellection or process of understanding is more objective because what one understands is a meaning of poem. Because of the aforementioned reasons, one could argue that Ferlinghetti’s poem…

that pleasure is what brings happiness and also freedom from pain. He has a very different idea from Aristotle. Mill believes that pleasure is something that can bring good things to people and thereby bringing good things means making them happy. “To suppose that life has… no higher end than pleasure- no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit-they designate as utterly mean and groveling” (Mill 7), Mill is saying that pleasure is the ultimate end and anything that doesn’t give pleasure…

While Hobbes reduces moral motivations to the sensible qualities of pain and pleasure, Hutcheson makes the case that moral motivations are basic sensible qualities themselves. Hutcheson has a much more holistic concept of sense than Hobbes does, defining sense as a power of receiving objects external to our will.17 He specifically refers to this as: "every determination of our mind to receive ideas of pleasure and pain.18 This "moral sense" is just one of six separate faculties for sensation:…