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  • intermediate. Since it is natural to seek pleasure and avoid pain, he took ... Aristippus himself insisted that true pleasure belongs only to a person ...
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  • human beings, as well as states such as pleasure, and the experience of beauty ... These states include things such as pleasure, freedom, and knowledge. ...
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  • for the first time in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, where Freud used it ... them. This appeared to violate the pleasure principle, "the drive of ...
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  • Kāma (Devanagari: काम) is the Indian notion of pleasure, which ... by which a couple can maximize sexual pleasure. Included in this corpus ...
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  • passions such as pain, fear, desire, and pleasure. The concept of apathy was ... passions such as pain, fear, desire, and pleasure. The concept of apatheia ...
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  • to bring about as much happiness of pleasure, to achieve the "greatest ... the greatest net happiness (or pleasure). Hedonism is no longer ...
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  • of Socrates. Starting with the Socratic principle that virtue is knowledge ... self-reliance and indifference to pain or pleasure, and was one of the teachers ...
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  • only, to the exclusion of any other principle, such as reflection. #039;s smell-experience will produce pleasure or pain; and pleasure and ...
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  • of the linguistic meaning called the principle of verifiability. This ... of ethical language while adhering to the principle of verification. If all ...
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  • There was no permanent or absolute principle such as divine justice ... Sophists often identified happiness with pleasure and promoted secular ...
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  • Bentham) holds that what is good is pleasure, and, when there is a choice ... to tell a lie. That ethical stance or principle against ever telling a ...
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  • on our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain" (Essay on ... of others the necessary occasion of pleasure, and their dislike, condemnation ...
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  • and that it could be achieved by seeking pleasure and minimizing pain, including ... well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.” Unlike the other Athenian ...
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  • action according to the amount of net pleasure brought about, a seemingly ... wrong. An action is right if is maximizes pleasure, wrong if it does not. Deontologists ...
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  • he mentions are: 1) The vulgar life of pleasure, 2) the political life of ... that the eudaimon life is the life of pleasure, maintains that the life ...
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  • of clergy who held their tenure at the pleasure of James I, Charles I, and ... ruler and his subject and affirming the principle that the people had the ...
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  • In the Laws, Plato applies this principle to electing a government ... According to the principle of the Golden Mean in ancient Greek philosophy ...
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  • of psychological hedonism, the idea that pleasure and pain were the motivation ... 039;s theory, unlike Mill's, lacks a principle of fairness embodied in ...
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  • three possible objects of goodness: Pleasure, freedom from pain, and ... and Free Will, Carneades argued that the principle of bivalence (the principle ...
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  • – 1849), in his essay "The Poetic Principle," argued that: ... the arts should provide refined sensuous pleasure, rather than convey moral ...
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