Western pleasure

Friendship requires partiality and altruism. If one aims to build a friendship, s/he must show partiality by making sacrifices that benefit this friend in lieu of maximizing pleasure for all. Utilitarianism requires persons to act only in ways that benefit hedonic utility – maximizing pleasure while minimizing pain. Utilitarianism forgoes partiality and requires that an individual only commit actions that benefit the greater good. Thus, friendship – an act that requires partiality – and Utilitarianism

Mimesis, Catharsis, and Pleasure: An Investigation into Aristotle’s Tragic Pleasure Bradley Elicker Temple University Abstract: Aristotle writes the Poetics as an investigation into representational art and, more specifically, as an investigation into the art form of tragedy. While Aristotle goes into great detail regarding the technical aspects of creating and appreciating a work of tragedy, he is somewhat lacking in his descriptions of how tragedy is enjoyed by an audience. Aristotle speaks

lived from 341B.C. to 270 B.C. His theory is hedonism, which is rooted in pleasure. The book speaks of pain as being only temporary, and that it is only a pleasure over pain (V). This is a way of life to see the pleasures that life offers are what Epicurus is saying. And although, “no Pleasure is a bad thing in itself,” The results of obtaining the pleasure can bring greater displeasures (VIII). He is looking for the most pleasures one can get, and I suppose if he was not happy with his job, that he would

than he deserves. Because of its pleasure, Donne theorizes that death releases all pain and grief and is associated with only positive emotions. On the other hand, a rock song released in 2012 called ‘The Fighter’ written by The Fray discusses the fear and pain associated with the experience of death. John Donne’s tenth sonnet explores an attitude of death that people perceive it to be and what death really is according to ideas of Christian eternity and pleasure. These attitudes of death that Donne

Over time, the actions of mankind have been the victim of two vague labels, right and wrong. The criteria for these labels are not clearly defined, but they still seem to be the standard by which the actions of man are judged. There are some people that abide by a deontological view when it comes to judging the nature of actions; the deontological view holds that it is a person's intention that makes an action right or wrong. On the other hand there is the teleological view which holds that it is

character. English philosopher Jeremy Bentham analyzed happiness from a hedonistic view. All schools of thought within hedonism branch off utilitarianism which in turn is a version of one of the main normative ethics, consequentialism.1 Pain and pleasure are the only deciding factors for any course of action reflecting utilitarianism’s

The way Blicher portrays the family of the manor is idealistic, which aligns with the dualism of Romanticism. The dualism of Romanticism puts forth that the ideal should be placed above the reality (Monrad, 09-26-16, sl. 11). The manor is described as a peaceful place where it “seems as if it were newly white-washed and decorated” and the “trees in the garden have taken on a beautiful shade of pale green and everyone looks so content” (Blicher 11). Miss Sophie can be related to the Platonic triad:

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defines happiness as pleasure without pain as pleasure can vary in quality and quantity. Mill writes in Utilitarianism, happiness is: “not a life of rapture, but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing.” Mill thought ethics should focus instead on quality of pleasure rather than quantity

Value hedonists’ view that pleasure is the only intrinsic good and pain is the only intrinsic evil seems to be an assumption rather than a deduced conclusion. This can be seen by asking why it is that pleasure is an intrinsic good. There seem to be only two possible answers to this question. The first possible reply is that the intrinsic good of pleasure is simply assumed, in which case the entire value hedonist’s view is an assumption involving no deduction whatsoever. Once someone agrees with the