Addiction and the Future of Pleasure Addiction is a term that’s tossed around lightly. Many people use it every day to describe their strong desire or liking for something such as coffee‚ candy‚ or sports. Although most people believe they understand the meaning of addiction‚ the real concept of it is rooted deep inside the brain. Defining addiction isn’t as easy as the understanding of how much you love sports or the fact that you can’t go a day without coffee. The only way to truly define addiction
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PLEASURE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Roger Crisp Roger Crisp asks whether hedonism is quite as bad as is often supposed. Hedonism’s decline Since the beginning of philosophy‚ many people have thought that the only thing really worth seeking in life is pleasure‚ and that the only thing really worth avoiding is pain. This is the view called ’hedonism’ (from the Greek hedone‚ meaning ’pleasure’). The ancients were fascinated by the view. Plato‚ Aristotle and the Stoics spent a lot of time coming
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Less Freedom‚ More Food Is it comforting to be reliant on other countries or large companies? If food processes were shown to the public‚ would American food habits continue as they are now? In the article‚ “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry‚ the author believes that industrial agriculture is taking away the freedom that Americans have grown up to have. America has become ignorant in the ways of food and food production. Many people do not care to learn about the dangers of food‚ which is
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Prior to watching the film: Pleasure Unwoven‚ I was of the opinion that addiction was a choice. After watching the film‚ I understand that addiction is a disease but I feel that choice still has an important role to play‚ because if one for example the alcoholic did not chose to taste alcohol in the first place he will not become an alcoholic. I appreciate the disclosure of Kevin McCaulley‚ the star/actor/narrator of the film; how he also said he thought that addiction was a choice. Alcohol and drugs
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of Peer Pleasure”? I like that it really puts a new positive mask over the negative outlook that peer pressure gets. The idea that peer pressure makes people do things that they don’t like rains true in this essay. However‚ these people are doing good things for themselves and others in return‚ without even realizing it. JW: In this essay the things that I was interested in were the studies‚ phycologist got people to do things just because they made people feel outcast. College students drank less
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Engaging in pleasure that does not entail the natural world has made westernized communities be completely removed from the surrounding ecosystems and ultimately eliminates humans from what it means to live in the environment. In other words‚ socioeconomically privileged humans chose to live in a world filled with pleasure‚ a term coined by Alaimo in This is about Pleasure: An Ethics of Inhabiting‚ that removes any life or natural source from the life of a human‚ thus having the human live in a home
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Discipline is the key to success - this saying holds true for all times and for all people of all age groups. But for students it holds a great value. In contemporary times there are so many temptations that can lure a student away from his basic objective in life. The glittering world of advertisement‚ the glamorous world of modeling and cinema unfold a new era in front of young people and they are wooed by the glamour. Those of us who are not wise enough to think rationally will be swept off our
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into and put a stop to it because of how unhealthy school foods really are. Wendell Berry was right when he said “And they mostly ignore certain critical questions about the quality and the cost of what they are sold…” in The Pleasures of Eating. Most students have no idea what is in their school lunch and where their food has came from. When schools purchase food they aren’t concerned about how healthy it is but how much they can get for the lowest cost. Which goes
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day-to-day life? Humans need a large amount of energy in order to work efficiently; and support from family and friends gives us the drive to accomplish our goals and aspirations. As a university student‚ you need a lot more than just food‚ sleep and support to get through the 4-plus years of what is to become the rest of your life. Students need the motivation‚ the ambition – the drive – to complete their schooling with much success. A tactic that is used to increase the motivation in students is trying
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Students are the young intelligent seedlings of the human civilization. As saplings need sunlight‚ water‚ and carbon dioxide for healthy growth‚ so do students need good education‚ medication ‚ food and as well as sports. If there isn’t sunlight when a plant grows ‚it will not grow up‚if there isn’t water the same thing happens. This same thing applies for students too‚ if there isn’t good education‚ we are pretty sure the kid wouldn’t grow with good knowledge‚ or if there isn’t food he would not
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