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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Bullying: Sadistic Pleasure? Have you been humiliated‚ hurt and made fun of by other people? Have they been abusing your negligence to their actions? Have you been bullied? Or were you the one who bullied? H. No. 5496 (Anti-Bullying Act of 2012): An act requiring all elementary and secondary schools to adopt policies to prevent and address the acts of bullying in their institutions. Sadism‚ pleasure taken from inflicting pain on others‚ may lead to Sadistic Personality Disorder which is a mental
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one is two and a half year old and she too is charming in her own different way... She can wrap anyone around her little fingers.. Such an innocent face and such naughty eyes!! Right from singing nursery rhymes to driving all of us crazy‚ she finds pleasure in everything she does... She is like a sweet little
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"The lovers of what is noble find pleasant the things that are by nature pleasant; and virtuous actions are such Their life‚ therefore‚ has no further need of pleasure as a sort of adventitious charm‚ but has pleasure in itself." Ethics‚ I.8 Aristotle was a student under Plato‚ and although he did not believe in the metaphysical Forms that Plato so firmly believed in‚ he did apply an element of the theory behind the Forms. Instead‚ what Aristotle postulated was that there was some ultimate
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Among the primary and secondary sources on Greek and Roman‚ early Christianity‚ and Rabbinic texts‚ an underlying commonality that is portrayed within these texts is that there is a line between one that holds a more authoritative position versus a follower. Whether it may be Torah student’s following and learning from Rabbis or a young boy having a relationship with an older man during the ancient Greek and Roman period‚ there is a constant division between individuals who are respected and have
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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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000 that get injured yearly? There are many ways to prevent these accidents. The first is to just simply not do it! According to a Nationwide Insurance study in 2008‚ 66% of drivers between the age of 18 and 24 send or receive text messages while behind the wheel. Text messaging while driving leads the list as the biggest distraction while driving. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that distracted drivers account for almost 80% of all crashes and 65% of near-crashes in the
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“persuasion.” The use of rhetoric dates back centuries all the way to ancient Greece. Rhetoric is simply used for everyday communication. It can be defined by three concepts: Logos‚ Ethos‚ and Pathos. Logos‚ Ethos and Pathos is explained in simpler terms as text‚ author‚ and audience. These concepts are the back bone of modern day rhetoric and are used to strengthen a rhetorical situation or argument. Rhetoric in turn fuels the concept of critical thinking or analyzing that are useful tools to help determine
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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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