Pleasure P Essays

  • My First Day With My Boyfriend

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    “Okay, may I ask, what bring you two lovely couple in my office today?” asked the couple psychotherapist. It was my first day in couple therapy with my boyfriend. We’ve decided to take our love to the next level and join homes, incongruously it brought us at a distance. And there he is, sitting next to me with that smirk face in repose. What happened to the magnitude of our fiery? “We cannot get along. Constantly bumping heads with our differences, I feel like a raging bull. Our different view were

  • A Wretch but for Love: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 91

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    ninety-first sonnet continues to address the young man to whom he has been writing the procreation sonnets. The theme of this sonnet is the incomparable value of the young man’s love. For Shakespeare, the pleasure of the young man’s love is greater than any other pleasure. His rejection of worldly pleasures for the greater joy of love also appears to highlight a distinction Shakespeare wants to make between true wealth and poverty. In doing so, he insinuates a social criticism about the notion of what

  • Reflection On Essentialism

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    about essentialism to my everyday life. If I want something to taste better I can manipulate my mind or other peoples minds by simply decoying an object. This can allow people to get on my good side whether they are rich or poor. Knowing how to pleasure oneself and others is a good strategy not only in social encounters, but also in work or school environments. This also helps to give a better understanding on why elders and museum historians find certain things to be valuable. This brought to

  • By Happiness Is Intended Pain By John Stuart Mill

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    believer that certain pleasures are intrinsically better than others, bolstering this claim by defining what is good, discussing the differences between quantity and quality, and questioning if a gain is worth its consequences. Primarily, Mill begins by discussing what he considers to be good. Mill states, “By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure”, meaning that in order to have happiness, you have to have pleasure and no pain, but in

  • Defining the Soul in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

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    Whitman's "Song of Myself" tends to either repeat or contradict. He even says of himself, "I contradict myself" (Lauter, p. 2793). This can make Whitman's poetry a little confusing to some. In his many stanzas, definition of the soul is ambiguous and somewhat contradictory. Whitman says, "Clear and sweet is my soul....and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul" (Lauter, p. 2745). What I believe Whitman is saying here is that his soul and everything else that is not his soul, including the

  • Analysis Of Hedonism

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    theory of well-being which prioritizes pleasure when determining the value of a life. It does so by expressing that “all and only positive experiences are good for you, and that all and only negative experiences are bad for you” (Gregory, 2015, p. 1). This perspective on well-being aims to describe what is good for us by solely giving importance to conscious experiences. By doing so, it is subject to objections such as Nozick’s experience machine objection (1974, p. 42-45). The objection asks the reader

  • Argumentative Essay On Utilitarianism

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    putting one’s own desires first and pursuing one’s own interests is wrong and immoral behavior. While some moral theories acknowledge that pursuing one’s own interests can be morally optional, in Utilitarianism, it is always forbidden (Moral Theory, p. 135). This makes the theory overly demanding because one is constantly forced to consider others. Utilitarians can respond to this objection by challenging the claim that pursuing one’s own desires cannot ever be consistent with the greatest good

  • The Characters of Prospero and Caliban in The Tempest

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    Their positions on the social hierarchy are largely due to the fact that Caliban responds almost wholly to passions, feelings of pleasure -- his senses, while Prospero is ruled more by his intellect and self-discipline -- his mind. However, the fight that Prospero has against his own natural tendency to ignore the discipline of his intellect, and give in to pleasures such as vanity and self-indulgence, cannot be ignored. Caliban was born of a witch; Prospero is a magician. However, the types

  • John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Sport

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    John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Sport ABSTRACT: While his own preference may have been for an engaging book over an exciting ballgame, John Stuart Mill’s distinction in Utilitarianism between higher and lower pleasures offers a useful framework for thinking about contemporary sport. This first became apparent while teaching Utilitarianism to undergraduates, whose interest is often piqued by using Mill’s distinction to rank popular sports such as baseball, football and basketball. This paper

  • The Giver’s Compassion for Jonas

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    community is ordered and ruled. Everything is same: their clothes, houses and lives. People follow the rules until they die. They know nothing about the true human life. The receiver of memory, the giver, is the only person who is able to the true pleasure of life. When Jonas is elected as the receiver of memory by the community and meets the Giver, his life is changed. Everything he believes in was controlled and hidden the real human life by the community. He is getting to realize that he will

  • Hedonism: Nozickian Experience Machine

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    Hedonism is a Greek term that embodies pleasures. The implication of the concept underscores how human beings should behave. The frameworks that explain the interplay of pain and pleasures are illustrated in theoretic models within the identification of pleasures and pain as the important aspect of the human phenomenon. In essence, it is evident that the definition of pleasure and pain within the hedonistic foundation characterize the ultimate importance of the philosophy of hedonism. The question

  • Aristotle and the Highest Form of Pleasure

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    Aristotle and the Highest Form of Pleasure After nine books of contemplating different aspects of the human good, Aristotle uses this opportunity to claim contemplation as the highest form of pleasure. The final book in Nicomachean Ethics is concerned with pleasures: the understanding of each kind, and why some pleasures are better than other pleasures. The book is essentially divided into two main parts, being pleasure and happiness. I will use Terence Irwin’s translation and subdivisions

  • Aristotle, Temperance, Pleasure, and Pain

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    Aristotle, Temperance, Pleasure, and Pain(1) ABSTRACT: Aristotle argues that temperance is the mean concerned with pleasure and pain (NE 1107b5-9 and 1117b25-27). Most commentators focus on the moderation of pleasures and hardly discuss how this virtue relates to pain. In what follows, I consider the place of pain in Aristotle’s discussion of temperance and resolve contradictory interpretations by turning to the following question: is temperance ever properly painful? In part one, I examine the

  • Road Less Traveled

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    longer matters."(p.15) 	The four main points of the Discipline section are delaying gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to reality and balancing. These four points are referred to as tools to solve life’s problems. By using these tools one is able to overcome anything that life throws his or her way. 	Delaying gratification as Peck puts it is "a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing

  • Epictetus Religion Gives Meaning To Life

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    philosophy that associates anything good with pleasure and anything bad with pain. Hedonists try to live their lives disassociating with any kind of pain because they believe that only pleasure should be present in people’s lives in order for them to be fulfilling their life. Epicurus’ theory is similar to this idea of hedonism, but it is not as severe and it is considered to be a more moderate view of it. The founder of this theory, Epicurus believed that pleasure was associated with the greatest goods

  • Argumentative Essay On The Experience Machine

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    statement, “The Experience Machine.” Nozick attentively against the idea of Hedonism; pleasure is the most important intrinsic good in one’s life, by presenting the philosophy of “The Experience Machine.” Nozick’s argument can be simply presumed as if pleasure is the most important matter in our lives, we would plug into the thought experience machine. Nonetheless, we wouldn’t have inclination to plug-in. Thus, pleasure isn’t the only thing that matter to us. At this point, Brigard showed that not all

  • Free College Essays - Lusting After Ladies at the A&P

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    Updike's 'A&P'?) Sammy has a sexual appetite that causes him problems. His worship of a woman's (careful with placement of possessive apostrophe) body causes him to misplace his values and center only on one value. This value is his lustful pleasure he gets when he sees three girls in their skimpy swimsuits. The pleasure he receives outweighs the consequence of emptiness he finally feels after he defends those girls and they do not respond to his pleasurable feelings. Updike in his short story "A&P" uses

  • What Does Nozick's Experience Machine Argument Really Prove?

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    believe that if his argument were conclusive, its destructive effect would be even stronger. It would not only refute mental-state utilitarianism, but all theories (whether utilitarian or not) considering a certain subjective mental state (happiness, pleasure, desire, satisfaction) as the only valuable state. I shall call these theories "mental state welfarist theories." I do not know whether utilitarianism or, in general, mental-state welfarism is plausible, but I doubt that Nozick's argument is strong

  • A Dystopian Future in Brave New World

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    wonder drug; and sex" (Dusterhoof, Guynn, Patterson, Shaw, Wroten and Yuhasz  1).  The misuse of perfected technologies, especially those allowing the manipulation of the human brain and genes, have created a pleasure-seeking world where there is no such thing as spiritual experience, just pleasures of the flesh.  In the face of a transcendent religion, the inhabitants (genetically engineered to exist in one of five classes and condition to believe that the class within which they fall is the best one

  • Faust And Frankenstein

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    will not satisfy his curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in the process of creating his new life, Faust, becomes distant and unconcerned with all reality and humanity around him. Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could teach or assert what would better mankind or      what might convert. I also have neither money nor treasures, nor worldly honors or earthly      pleasures; no dog would want to live this way!(p. 95) Obviously, Faust has fallen into a inhumane state