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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the virtue of action. The principle that utilitarianism use in making moral decisions is a form of moral hedonism; that people should seek pleasure and avoid pain. Utilitarianism seeks to produce the greatest good for the greatest number. But‚ the problem is in determining what the greatest good is. Utilitarian define the “good” as good is what equates pleasure and reduces pain or what is contusive to the happiness of the largest number of people. Utilitarian’s think that human beings have a pre-existing
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action or inaction‚ he may act impulsively. He will be less responsible that another person who acts voluntarily‚ deliberately and wholly understands the aftermath of his deeds. A really virtuous person does not any more need to choose‚ he gets pleasure by acting well‚ he is disposed to act well and feels no pressure to act wrongly. “ Virtue is a disposition‚ not a feeling or a
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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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different types of friendship. “By friendship (philia) Aristotle typically means the mutually acknowledged and reciprocal relation of good will and affection that exists among individuals who share an interest in each other on the basis of virtue‚ pleasure and utility.” (Sherman‚ 1987) In my opinion Aristotle’s friendship of virtue is the most respectful relationship of every mankind. I will first explain Aristotle’s two different types of friendship: incomplete and complete friendship. Second‚ I
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categories: utility‚ friendship of pleasure‚ and a virtuous friendship. When two people realizes that the other person has a good character‚ and spends time with one another‚ engaging in the same activities that illustrates
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Throughout history philosophers and scholars have widely debated the theory of comedy and laughter‚ the types of laughter and the reasons why we laugh. In his essay “Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space” Timothy Morton‚ discusses his views on laughter and states that “comedy is the genre closes to the ontological structure of how things are” (332). Morton begins by proposing that “a thing is exactly what it is‚ yet never exactly as it appears” (Morton 322-323)‚ therefore
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The idea of free will‚ the ability to make choices‚ is fundamental to Judaism. The traditional Jewish conception of human nature includes a belief that human beings are/were created in the image of God. Judaism views that all human beings neutral‚ unlike some other philosophers like St. Augustine who think humankind started from sin. The concept of “original sin” is not applicable in this case. It has a belief that every person can choose between good and evil. The moral conscience that reminds a
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Ethics is a branch of philosophy that seeks to discover the most fundamental levels regarding the true nature of “good” and “happiness.” Within Ethics‚ there are several different sub-branches including those which will be discussed here: Aristotle’s Teleology and Epicurus’ Hedonism. Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle and Letter to Monoeceus by Epicurus provide us with two different perspectives concerning what happiness is. The following comparisons between these works highlight some of the the similiraties
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