Pleasure

Aesthetics revolves around his conception behind the sublime. Kant proposes that all experiences of sublimity evoke the experience of pleasure within the individual experience the sublime. The pleasure derives from a negative liking within the person as they experience displeasure at the awareness of the limitations of their imagination, yet this results in pleasure at knowing the ability of our human reason (Kant, 1987). Kant’s characterisation of the sublime presents a good conception of…

and maximize happiness or pleasure of the overall good in order to be moral. And the happiness of the majority is chosen over happiness or pleasure of the minorities. Utilitarianism takes a quantitative and reductionist measure to deal with ethics. It is the ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the outcomes (consequences) of choosing one action/policy over other actions/policies. Utilitarianism’s underlying idea is that happiness and pleasure are fundamentally…

society has deemed it that it is right to do this because it would elevate a kind of suffering from the world that ill will has a high probably of causing. Voice 1: However, that reasoning to cause the most pleasure is in effect a good will. Our will must be good to want to cause the most pleasure and minimize suffering. Since one has a good will, they will most likely carry out the right act, whether that is an effective act is irrelevant. Voice 2: And here we come back to one of our first…

for many people. When they think of ‘hedonism’ they might think of someone who is a sexual deviant or one that is purely a pleasure seeking individual, someone in pursuit of ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’. When they think of Egoism, you think of the term egomaniac which is normally a…

Utilitarianism, on the other hand, states that actions are morally right or wrong depending on their consequences (Matti, 1994). Mill said: “Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness”. Ideally, if gene editing follows the rules of utilitarianism, it should be a technique that leads to the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people (Matti 1994). The happiness such as: couples will no longer have to anxious about the possible genetic diseases. This positive motive…

happiness one can create versus Bentham’s quantitative hedonistic view of just the net amount of happiness one can experience. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory is founded on a theory of value known as hedonism. Hedonism claims that happiness and pleasure alone are intrinsically good and that unhappiness and pain alone are intrinsically bad. It expresses that all other values are merely…

according to which only states of pleasure possess positive intrinsic value (intrinsically good) and only states of pain poses negative intrinsic value (intrinsically bad or evil. This value of hedonistic utilitarianism” (Timmons). ‘Hedonism’ is recognized as ‘pleasure’ in ancient Greek terms. In other simpler terms, the value hedonism orders that pain or pleasure is the basis of a person’s ethical standards. If it brings pain it is bad, and if it brings pleasure it is good. Sex is an example…

What is the moral theory of utilitarianism? According to Vaughn, “[Utilitarianism is] the view that right actions are those that result in the greatest overall happiness for everyone involved” (Vaughn, 79). At face value such a moral theory sounds great, because it should promote general happiness. While this is true, a particular argument, the telishment argument, shows that utilitarianism is not a viable moral theory because it promotes decisions that run contrary to historical moral…

utility/ benefits than other acts. Under Utilitarianism, individuals do not merely look to their own pleasure, but are concerned with maximizing pleasure for all [“greatest happiness for the greatest number” principle] including future generations. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Bentham’s disciple, modified the theory by recognizing different human characteristics rather than placing equal values on ‘pleasures’ as goals. The basic idea of Utilitarianism is “actions are right in proportion as they…

superhuman virtue. A virtuous person’s wishes are aligned with a reasonable rationale so that virtuous act is satisfying and leading to happiness. According to Aristotle, one of an essential condition for a person to be virtuous is that he takes pleasure in acting virtuously. Whereas, a continent individual acts according to virtue and does so for the right reason but his desires are wrong. A virtuous person desires and actions are aligned along reasonable motives leading to happiness. On…