Surplus value

Default Hedonism to measure net worth of pleasure and pain. These two units are hedons and dolors. As previously mentioned, a hedon is one unit of pleasure, and a dolor is one unit of pain. So when one experiences an episode of pleasure, the intrinsic value of that episode is equal to the number of hedons in that episode. The same can be applied to an episode of pain. To further break down this claim, Feldman says that experiencing more intense pleasures is better than experiencing less intense…

“The only way you can tell whether an intention would be good is by looking at whether performing the corresponding deed would be good, in which case the appeal to intentions isn 't really necessary.” This argument made by Peter Abelard is a bit confusing because, it begs the question, “how can a deed be named good or bad if the intention isn’t necessary? While attempting to answer this question, I became conflicted by many of my own moral and ethical ideals. Often I found myself questioning if…

Isolated Individual does not work; we have learned this by reading chapters before the 5th and 6th chapters. Permant personal relationships or to value of selfism, such as patience, duty, and self sacrifice which maintains a commitment. If these values are not there, it leads to not being conducive in the value of selfism. To maintain a commitment we have to have self-sacrifices. If I enter a relationship with a man that is to be my husband then I have to have patience, a responsibility to…

Value creation is the direct consequence of an action or decision initiated by an entity. In essence, it is the measurable change in the “value” of the entity, be it a firm’s listed stock price, a company’s enterprise value of future earnings or its accounting value, due to the benefits and costs generated from a corporate action. With regards to businesses, firms generate benefits and costs in the form of monetary value, however this is disillusioned with regards to the perspective of the value…

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The first Smokey Bones opened in Orlando, Florida in 1999. Since then Smokey Bones has had an extensive history including changing owners, expanding the restaurants, and evolving the menu. Smokey Bones Bar and Grill is known as a casual, dining restaurant that specializes in barbecue and sports entertainment. The goal of Smokey Bones is to be the favorite choice for food, drinks, and fun. They aim to provide good food and drinks in a great atmosphere as the appeal for their guests. Smokey Bones…

Frazier also claims that "marginal places are the blue­sky research zones of the outdoors"(Frazier 7). By having marginal places to go to, one can have a place to escape from the real world to do activities that do not really account for any economical values. Simply doing activities like throwing rocks, shooting frogs, making forts, and climbing trees seem to have no purpose whatsoever to most people, but to Frazier these activities were valuable. These activities were valuable to Frazier…

What is value? The question is tricky to answer on its own, but it can be helpful to look at the big picture. When trying to decide what is valuable, one often has a hard time distinguishing between the concepts of “want” and “need.” It is not believable, however, to draw a barrier line between the two and claim that want and need will stay separate unconditionally. For each person, wants and needs are defined differently. The “wants and needs” of a homeless person compared to those of a…

themselves to another in how valuable they are compared to another human being when we are all made of the same flesh. People will ask what makes you better than me or your life more valuable than mine? Personally i believe there is much more to the value of someones life than just numbers but that shouldn’t matter because we are all human, we have feelings, we have family, so how can one’s life be worth more than another. In the text, “What…

The classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee published in 1960, but still relates to our society as it stands today. It is a moving story that highlights social inequality, the importance of moral education, and the value of tolerance for others way of life. Despite the numerous, valuable moral lessons that tie to today’s society, portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird, it has still been banned from many schools, due to the crude language, racial slurs, and blunt dialogue…