Search results for "Pleasure principle" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • We desire knowledge of the Whole and the pleasure we receive from it. Such ... this primary experience which cannot in principle be described or spoken ...
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  • The principle figure of the Bahá'í Faith, known as Bahá'u ... Aquinas understood the soul as the first principle, or act, of the body. However ...
    34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
  • an easy-to-understand example of the principle that every entity in creation ... is done on a smaller scale, primarily for pleasure and to produce goods for ...
    22 KB (3,368 words) - 15:42, 21 January 2023
  • Materialism is sometimes allied with the methodological principle ... Because all that exists is matter, pleasure and pain are central facts ...
    23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
  • of the monarch butterfly reflects the principle of altruism since an adult ... garden. Others enjoy raising them for pleasure or for educational purposes. ...
    17 KB (2,556 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
  • of life (e.g., the "anthropic principle"). ==Philosophy of ... of life in the search for the highest pleasure or happiness. ...
    50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
  • Feynman's thesis applied the principle of stationary action to ... in the Manhattan Project in his book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. As ...
    54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
  • lack (manque) connive to make of the pleasure principle the regulator of the ... the subject to transgress the "pleasure principle." ...
    49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
  • Deity, we should probably take particular pleasure in cutting off believers ... to resort to the wager, a precautionary principle, as a reason to decide ...
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  • kibbutz ideology. Kibbutz members took pleasure in bringing the land back ... Until the 1970s, the principle of equality was taken extremely seriously ...
    24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
  • and prosperity, namely, the surplus of pleasure over pain. In Social Statics ... Spencer believed that the first principle of ethics was "the ...
    19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
  • of sex, rather than by the fundamental principle of moral being, has led to all that multifarious train of evils flowing out of the anti-Christian ...
    25 KB (4,265 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
  • that as a youth, Judah Ha-levi enjoyed a life of pleasure. ... on the world; he abandoned frivolous pleasure, and his poetry turned to ...
    27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
  • quot;raku" which translates as "pleasure." ... institution in Japan, is rooted in the principle of Zen Buddhism and founded ...
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  • known quote, "To appreciate and find pleasure in curiously curved potted ... deeper than those used today. The main principle was now the removal of ...
    25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
  • moral law, wealth or material welfare, pleasure, and liberation or emancipation ... B.C.E.). Anekantavada is a basic principle of Jainism positing that ...
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  • equally accessible to all citizens. This principle is now so fundamental to ... *Public Pleasure Grounds, San Francisco, California *Riverside Drive ...
    19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
  • that women have less capacity for pleasure, and less capacity for work ... then is to appeal to the utilitarian principle of maximizing the sum of ...
    20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
  • life-long learning, and reinforce the pleasure of encountering and mastering ... " while other see the Montessori principle of "freedom within ...
    21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
  • Thus vacillate I between dangerous pleasure and tried soundness; being ... inculcating its converts with an ascetic principle that could endure and survive ...
    20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022

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