"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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Can Superior and Inferior People Become Complete Friends? This paper examines whether inferior and superior people can be friends based on complete friendship according to Aristotle. First‚ I will clarify the definition of a complete friendship and what it entails. Secondly‚ I will explain the different types of equal and unequal friendships in accordance with complete friendship. Then I will show how different levels of affection follow the forms of inequality and how a sort of equality can
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temptation of all pleasures becomes intemperate‚ but one who abstains
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The two sources of moral guidance are the rivaling theories of Kantianism and Utilitarianism‚ both normative moral theories‚ meaning they deal with how we know what is right or wrong. Kantianism is a deontological theory developed by Immanuel Kant. This means that the theory holds the importance of duty and motives of an act in higher prestige than the consequences of said act. Kant argued‚ what came with is religiosity‚ that we‚ humans are rational‚ moral beings. This meant that we understand intrinsically
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happiness is our human function. Aristotle‚ discusses that to have a truly happy life we would have to perform virtuous actions that are within the mean; neither excessive‚ nor deficient. Aristotle also emphasizes that happiness is more permanent than pleasure. Indeed‚ he argues further that our ethics is defined by our actions. His main point is that we need to live temperate lives in order to be
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This analysis will examine the following focal points‚ panopticism‚ scoptophilic instincts‚ and visual pleasure. First‚ the analysis will examine panopticism in relation to embedded “secret politics” within the film‚ The Day I Became a Woman. Second‚ the analysis will compare both scoptophilic instinct with visual pleasure. In Chapter Five‚ Panopticism‚ which appears in Visual Culture: the reader‚ Michel Foucault explores the‚ “generalized model of functioning”‚ when defining panopticism. Foucault
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Do you agree with him‚ that moral activity is secondary? In Book X of Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle‚ he writes about pleasure and happiness. Aristotle makes the point that happiness and pleasure should not be confused with each other. He argues that pleasure is not good‚ but a good. Pleasure is not a process‚ and not all pleasures are desirable‚ so pleasure is not the supreme Good. However‚ happiness is not a process. It is an activity that serves as an end itself. Aristotle writes
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of the argument. In this case‚ the best view of what is good is that of a hedonist‚ that is‚ a thing is good if it brings about pleasure and bad if it brings about suffering. To add to this however‚ I would argue that the best good outcome is the outcome which
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another unless they are mutually useful. They take pleasure from each other’s company just for their own sake. Aristotle uses the elderly and foreigners as examples of friendships based on utility. The second type of friendship is a friendship based on pleasure. This friendship is made between two people that wish to gain pleasure from one another. Aristotle uses the young as an example here. Friendship between the young is grounded on pleasure because the lives
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strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life‚ says Csikszentmihalyi‚ and we tend to talk about each concept interchanging from one another. Pleasure is something that we seek through expectations set by natural projects or by social molding. We tend to seek pleasure from “homeostatic experiences”‚ says Csikszentmihalyi‚ for example we look for pleasure from liquor‚ drugs‚ sitting in front of the Television‚ engaging in sexual relations‚ and material belongings. Rest avails us to recuperate order
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