choice grants one with many options of future events depending on their notion of happiness. The meaning of Epicurus’ statement is that humanity’s decisions need to be inspired by the innate good of pleasure and should reflect a clear conscience. The first step is to comprehend the attractive pleasures that ease one’s soul and the negative indulgences one should avoid‚ which may diminish from it. When their foundation of what’s acceptable or not is formulated‚ one will make their own decisions from
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and powerful with our pleasure imaginations than the uninteresting world. “The publication of The Vinci Code led to a booming tourism industry in Scotland” (Bloom 579). This world really needs our creative imaginations because with our creativity it will change the world. “Our main leisure activity is‚ by a long shot‚ participating in experiences that we know are not real” (Bloom). First‚ Bloom begins his essay by stating that our imaginations are overtaken by our pleasures. “One solution to this
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wrote his thesis in his book The Nicomachean Ethics. He develops the notion that thinking will lead to the highest happiness that a human could achieve. In The Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle talks about how humans have immediate goods in life such as “pleasure‚ money‚ or‚ eminence‚” which will contribute to the supreme good in life (7). However‚ the supreme good does not aim to satisfy the appetite or the will‚ for these things are too superficial according to Aristotle. The supreme good “is found to be
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2. The friendship of utility Aristotle’s second type of friendship is the friendship of utility. In a friendship of utility‚ “people love one another because they are useful and only in so far as they are useful” (116). A damaged friendship of utility can be repaired with monetary compensation for the damage that was done – since all utility eventually amounts to money anyway. A friendship of utility will naturally end when one or both members stop being useful to the other. Aristotle says that
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Utilitarianism and Business Ethics Utilitarianism is a normative‚ consequentialist‚ empirical philosophy which links the idea of a good action to one which promotes maximum pleasure or happiness‚ found by adding up costs and benefits (or pains and pleasures). It has two classic formulations - Bentham’s hedonistic (pleasure-based) act utilitarianism and Mill’s eudaimonistic (happiness-based) rule utilitarianism. In this article we make some preliminary comments on Bentham and Mill before analysing
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BBA313 DEONTOLOGICAL (NONCONSEQUENTIAL)‚ TELEOLOGICAL (CONSEQUENTIAL)‚ VIRTUE ETHICAL THEORIES - WEEK/ TOPIC 3: Dr. Ziska Fields HOMEWORK: (1 PAGE ONLY) Today the Arms Procurement Commission began public hearings into what appears to be the biggest corruption scandal in the history of South Africa. Apply the Global Business Standards Codex and explain if and how the Defense Department used these principles‚ what they could have done differently if the Codex was applied GLOBAL BUSINESS STANDARDS
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The word happiness can be defined as a mental or emotional state of well-being. Happiness is a feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. The topic of happiness is one that has been discussed over centuries by philosophers‚ clergymen and scientists inter alia. Their arguments have been based trying to properly define happiness taking into account what its causes are amongst other things. According to philosopher’s St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas man’s last end is happiness. All men agree in desiring
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effecting the education of students in an adverse manner‚ there should be greater emphasis put on the importance of reading for pleasure in order to counteract the declining abilities of students. The author of Study Finds Reading for Pleasure Puts Child Ahead in the Classroom‚ an inside look at the study The Role of Reading‚ reveals how “children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers” (“Study on Reading”). The study carried out by Alice Sullivan
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infant gains pleasure through being fed. Food is the unconditioned stimulus and pleasure is the unconditioned response. When the infant is being fed‚ the infant associates the person providing the food with the food. The primary caregiver is the neutral stimulus‚ which becomes associated with food (the unconditioned stimulus). When the attachment has been learned‚ the infant gains pleasure when the primary caregiver is present. The primary caregiver is now the conditioned stimulus and pleasure is now the
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"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" - Laura Mulvey In her "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey utilizes psychoanalysis theory as a "political weapon" to demonstrate how the patriarchic subconscious of society shapes our film watching experience and cinema itself. According to Mulvey the cinematic text is organized along lines that are corresponding to the cultural subconscious with is essentially patriarchic. Mulvey argues that the popularity of Hollywood films is determined
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