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    Dear Tom‚ It has been a pleasure to meet you with undisturbed serenity. At this lake‚ we may find very well quiet‚ I think that I may address to you at this time regarding our past business issues. First‚ I do recall that you know about the economic crisis that our company has been going through. Because of this‚ you should know that I need the funds as soon as possible. Therefore‚ Dear Tom‚ It has been a pleasure to meet you with undisturbed serenity. At this lake‚ we may find very well quiet

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    the greatest number. Individual acts can therefore be judged as right or wrong by reference to the rules. Mill’s basic idea was that pleasure of the mind that spirit were more value than pleasure of the body. He believes that higher pleasures are generally more intellectual pleasures such as learning‚ reading and so on. Whereas‚ lower pleasures are more sensual pleasures such as eating‚ drinking‚ sex‚ etc. Therefore‚ reading a book‚ learning something new would be far superior and preferable as humans

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    pleasures of life Everyone has passed through hard situations in his life that made him thinks that life is miserable and there is nothing good about it ‚ but if we give ourselves a minute to think of life positively we’ll find that god has given us so many pleasures and that life is worth fighting for . Simply‚ the best things in life are free . Love is the most beautiful pleasure in our lives ‚ it supports you ‚ encourages you and makes you feel capable of doing anything ‚ it just

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    good character‚ good habits and being conducted by reason. Such virtues commonly known are courage or modesty. It is through a series of reasonable actions that form good character that we humans can find the lifestyle suited to us. Despite what pleasure we might abandon along the way‚ or what pain we may face as a result does not matter. Doing the right thing‚

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    utilitarianism this is ethical because it brings great pleasure to those who are provided with homes. Utilitarians believed that ethics could be found in what bought about the greatest amount of pleasure and providing these homes would do just that. This also according to Mill who was concerned with qualitative pleasure rather than quantitative pleasure is a good and ethically just thing as having shelter‚ a basic human need‚ is a high quality pleasure. However‚ the quantitative part of the theory with

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    Bentham introducing the idea of Act Utilitarianism‚ Mill adapting the ideas of Bentham and trying improve the flaws he saw with his Rule utilitarianism and Singer with his preference utilitarianism theory. Bentham was hedonist‚ meaning he was a pleasure seeker. Bentham portrayed two main features of utilitarianism‚ one being the consequentialist principle. The consequentialist principle states that the rightness or wrongness of an act is determined by the goodness or badness of the results that

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    Callicles of Acharnae‚ fervently discuss the relationship between pleasure and good. It is in this philosophical debate that Callicles states a good life as one that consists of having as much unrestricted pleasure as possible; therefore‚ implying that the pleasant and the good are identical. However‚ Socrates contends otherwise‚ and attempts to convince Callicles of the error in his ways by proving that good is ultimately not the same as pleasure. Socrates does so by employing two key arguments that render

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    before arriving at a final definition of the Platonic Form1 of happiness—a matter that Plato touches on only briefly in the text‚ but that is nevertheless central to his thinking on the subject. II. Happiness and Pleasure I will begin by considering the distinction between happiness and pleasure‚ and the language that Plato uses to describe the two. The word used most often in the text to describe happiness is eudaimonia‚ which may also be translated as ‘flourishing’ (Vlastos: 108). In contrast to the

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    The art of dining well is no slight art‚ the pleasure not a slight pleasure. Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) Compare two texts from the Anthology which present the art of dining. Text 2 is called ‘Eating Out’ it is poem by U A Fanthorpe about a transition of relationships overtime whereas Text 29 is a novel extract from The Warden by Anthony Trollope written around the time of Oliver Twist about a dining experience at Plumstead Episcopi. ‘Eating Out’ is a poem that is written in seven couplets

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    Rule Utilitarianism

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    and maintained that human beings were motivated by pleasure and by pain. He believed that everyone had an equal right to happiness‚ irrespective of their situation or status in life and argued that everyone counted equally in the assessment of the benefits of an action. He believed that overall‚ this would also benefit the individual who did so and this would lead to that person’s greatest happiness as well. His theory is democratic as pleasure cannot be for one person and one person alone. Bentham

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