HEDONISM There is no doubt that pleasure is good. Whether the pleasure is emotional or physical; whether we get this pleasure through taste‚ touch‚ sight‚ scent‚ or hearing ;it makes no difference. Pleasure is always enjoyable. In fact the words pleasure and good are often times interchangeable. After seeing a movie I liked‚ I may tell someone that the film was pleasurable or that it was good. Both descriptions have a positive connotation. But while pleasure is undoubtedly good‚ it is not the highest
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like existentialism‚ utilitarianism‚ contractarianism‚ etc. Utilitarianism is defined as doing what is best for the most amount of people. The main question that arises from this theory is: What is considered best? This can be answered through hedonism. Hedonism defines good as anything that can be pleasurable. There are two main kinds of utilitarianism: act and rule. Act utilitarianism is when performing an action‚ you choose the path that provides the best overall results. Rule utilitarianism is
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hope for the people moved to the United States that anyone can earn wealth through hard work and would give comfort to their lives – in search for basic needs. However‚ we cannot see this hard work done to gain wealth and comfort. Instead we see hedonism and materialism in The Great Gatsby. For example‚ Gatsby throws in parties every Saturday night and those who attend those parties are searching for pure pleasure and enjoyment. This is the result of the Jazz Age as many had their goals towards finding
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representation in Gatsby is seen in the tone of the book. Cynicism was a common theme during the Jazz Age‚ and is exemplified in the pages of this novel. The Great Gatsby is representative of the Jazz Age due to its reflection of the society from the 1920s though the characters and lifestyle
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social status‚ he is a typical chaser of American Dream. But he is unable to change the poor living conditions‚ therefore he can not stop struggling between illusion and reality. At that time‚ the United States advocating the supremacy of money and hedonism‚ Gatsby believe that as long as get material prosperity then he can get love or everything he want. During the First World War‚ Gatsby met Miss Daisy fell in love. Later‚ Gatsby went to front of war‚ when he returned‚ he found that Daisy has married
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night’s sleep. And most important of all there are no books to hurt anyone’s feeling or to poison anyone’s mind with conflicting thoughts. These are the hallmarks of the society in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ where the primary purpose of life is hedonism‚ an uninhibited
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Marketing the consumer society and Hedonism Contents Introduction Nowadays marketing is linked with pejorative definition‚ for many critics it is related with an hedonistic lifestyle. Hedonism is a philosophy an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good. In this article hedonism and marketing are related with materialism which can be defined as the pursuit of gathering as many material goods as possible in order to achieve happiness. This article underlines
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Hedonism implies that the moral obligation of human beings is to maximise actions that promote pleasure or happiness. It advocates for displacing pain through instilling happiness. It is an ethical theory that ascertains a right and wrong act depending on whether they promote and produce pleasure and pain respectively. Such forms of pleasure do not only apply to sensory pleasure. It‚ however‚ rounds it up to the forms of pleasure that uphold the ethical values. This study is going to focus on the
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The hedonic activity that I engaged in was researching and purchasing a new laptop. I didn’t “need” one because I already had an older netbook (slow) and another laptop (big and heavy). I spent many hours online happily seeking the perfect combination of speed‚ battery life‚ graphics‚ size and price‚ and finally ended up with a Lamborghini Asus 12” netbook. Even if I couldn’t afford the car‚ now I could have the branded computer‚ including a deep‚ throaty (actually tinny) vroom‚ vroom sound with
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Realities of Hedonistic Consumerism‚ by Jesse Arrington‚ expresses hedonistic consumerism goes farther in our lives than we think. Since we buy things that we need in order to live‚ this shows how consumerism plays a big part in our lives. However‚ the hedonism part proposes that most people are grasped up in consumerism that they rely on this to be their basic cause of their way of living. A study shows that the average American family has more than eight thousand dollars in credit-card debt. This results
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