The aim of this essay is to analyze the relationship between tragedy and its audience and how according to Aristotle‚ the play is supposed to achieve its final cause. Through the essay i am going to examine the proper pleasure of tragedy by looking at Oedipus tragedy from Sophocles.The story is the following: A terrible famine has struck Thebes and Delphi Oracle requires the punishment of the murderer of the previous Κing Laiou. Oedipus who succeeded Laius and married his widow Ιocasti‚ is cursing
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Beauty is a combination of qualities that give pleasure to the senses. It is an inborn instinct in human to appreciate beauty. Beauty both of nature and of human form have been a powerful attraction for men and women of all times and climes. A beautiful object fills the heart with joy and delight. The soul gets stirred by the external view of beauty. Man has developed an eye for beauty right from the Stone Age. The earliest cave-paintings depicting animals and trees prove the caveman’s love for
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definition of Hedonism‚ the amount and intensity of bodily pleasure in Brave New World (BNW)‚ and the amount and intensity of bodily pleasure here in real life. The definition of Hedonism leads one to maximize the amount of pleasure and minimize the amount of pain: The only thing intrinsically good in life is pleasure‚ and the only thing intrinsically bad in life is pain. Other things in life have extrinsic value - they can lead to either pain or pleasure‚ but do not produce the sensations by themselves.
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the views that both Aristotle and Epicurus hold on pleasure Epicurus tried to find the key of obtaining pleasure‚ so did Aristotle. Although they both have different theories about pleasure‚ they both agreed on the idea that actions aim to obtain pleasures. Pleasure is something that can be defined differently by each individual. Every person have a different idea on how we reach our desires. For Aristotle‚ our pleasures come through fulfilling human functions well and this
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The principle of utility Bentham developed the utility principle. The rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its ’utility’ or usefulness. Usefulness refers to the amount pleasure or happiness caused by the action. The theory is k the greatest happiness principle‚ or GHP; The principle of utility means the principle which approves or disapproves of every act‚ according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in
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mathematically driven theory. Mill created a distinction between higher‚ intellectual pleasures and lower‚ bodily pleasures. Mill stated that some pleasures are of a higher quality‚ and therefore are worth more. Additionally he stated that no quantity of a lower pleasure could achieve the same quality as a higher one. Finally‚ Mill proposed that the “competent judge” of pleasure is someone who has experienced both pleasures and would always prefer one over the other (chapter 2‚ paragraph 5). In this paper
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they promote happiness and wrong if they promote the reverse of happiness” (Mill 4). He further defines happiness as the presence of pleasure and absence of pain. In the process‚ he explains that the pleasure can differ in quantity and quality. In that regard‚ the pleasures that are rooted in a person’s higher faculty should be weighted more heavily than the pleasures on the base.
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thousands of years. Despite how varied and multifaceted Hedonism is‚ it is difficult for one to initially consider the attainment of pleasure an ideology. Pleasure and pain are the base most of the human experience. Ideologies comment‚ usually auxiliary to the main tenets‚ on pleasure and pain. Hedonism is the foremost ideology that examines this directly‚ pain and pleasure form the foundation of it. Hedonism is divided into two broad
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the principle of utility as a measure of working out the usefulness of an action according to how much pleasure it creates for how many people. But Mill stated that it is the quality of this pleasure that matters not how much of this pleasure we have. Mill distinguished between higher and lower pleasures and the higher pleasures were qualitatively better and more important than lower pleasures. He argued that‚ ‘human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites and‚ once made conscious
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Outline the important concepts of utilitarianism (21) The theory of utilitarianism determines the rightness or wrongness of an action by its consequences. This is determined by measuring the amount of pleasure or pain brought to someone caused by an action. Utilitarianism is a teleological theory of ethics‚ this means that it is concerned with the outcome and the consequences‚ meaning that an act is not right or wrong in itself but is right or wrong depending on the outcome of said action. The main
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