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    Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard In “Set in Our Ways: Why change is so hard” the author argues that people are most likely to change their lives before their twenties and less likely after their thirties. The author’s research concludes that openness declines in adulthood and that such fact appears around the world and in all cultures‚ thus forming a genetic basis. After reading the article‚ I began to think about my own life and if I want to change something‚ and what may be really needed

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    society. How the whole should act and how it affects the self. II. Hedonism (Pick 2 out of 4) 1. Hedonists distinguish between two types of pleasure. Explain this distinction and give examples of each type of pleasure. Which type of pleasure do hedonists claim is more important? Why do you think they say this? Do you agree with this claim? Hedonism has its etymology from the Greek word hedone‚ which is translated as Pleasure. Hedonism tries to analyze what makes us happy and the answer is divided

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    Love is ephemeral‚ and is based on materialism and hedonism in The Great Gatsby. This reflects the jazz age‚ and the moral vacuity that people subjected them in the pursuit of the holistic idea of the American dream. This conveyed in Daisy Buchanan whose “voice is full of money”. Daisy’s purposes in life were material comforts and luxuries. Love being based on materialism and hedonism is shown were Daisy marries Tom Buchanan who buys her a $30’000 pearl necklace‚ instead

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    John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) later furthered and many believe he improved Bentham’s theory (Mill is often linked to Rule Utilitarianism) but still followed many of his original ideas. The theory is based on ancient hedonism‚ which pursued physical pleasure and avoided physical pain. Hedonism saw human beings as “Under the governance of two sovereign masters of pain and pleasure.” So a key concept that Bentham developed was the belief we are controlled by the desire to seek out pleasure and avoid pain

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    Victor’s reaction to the universal symbols is anger‚ and with his dad leaving it is as if his father died. Everybody shared the experience of Arnold leaving such as‚ his wife‚ son‚ Thomas‚ and Thomas’s grandmother. Nevertheless‚ it affected Victor personally. Victor ignored his thoughts about what he thought about his father‚ and the true feelings he was feeling when his father left him. Every time Thomas would tell a story about Arnold‚ Victor would ignore him. This unconscious feeling was conscious

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    freeing the body of pain and anxiety‚ living in moderation‚ caring more about friends and family than material goods‚ and finally and most importantly; thinking positively and rationally. These ideas are fundamental for living an advantageous life. As Epicurus says: living a life worthwhile is a life where our body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety. Pain and anxiety are illusions that are caused by our mind. In other words‚ we would not experience pain and anxiety if we did not have any of our

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    at the desirability and undesirability of consequences; meaning people base their actions on what is right and wrong by the virtue of the outcome. The Principle of Utility was derived by Jeremy Bentham and originated from psychological hedonism. Psychological hedonism is a form of psychological egoism that describes the human motive and desire to experience pleasure and avoid pain. The Principle of Utility is therefore described as the determination of right and wrong actions with right actions producing

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    Consequentialism By Jeremy Ciolli University of the People For this paper I choose the topic of consequentialism. Consequentialism is the subject of this study that I felt I most related to and was true for me. In this paper I will explain what it is‚ why I relate to it‚ and why I feel it is incomplete. Consequentialism is the subject in morality of weighing the consequences of your actions by the outcomes it will effect. You tally up the consequences and if they are more right or

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    more challenge‚ the greater the sense of achievement. When others have achieved the same thing‚ status is reduced and greater goals are sought. Hedonism Hedonists simply enjoy themselves. They seek pleasure above all things and may‚ according to the view of others‚ sink into debauchery. Stimulation The need for stimulation is close to hedonism‚ though the goal is slightly different. Pleasure here comes more specifically from excitement and thrills and a person with this driver is more likely

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    In the twenty first century‚ when the word monster is said the first thing people think of is the Disney movie Monsters Inc. with their cute‚ harmless‚ and playful monsters‚ but that was not always the case two hundred years ago. As evidence in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ a Romantic novel written in 1818 about a man‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ who through the process of reanimation creates a being but turns himself into a monster instead of creating one. Also in the Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian

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