Search results for "Pleasure principle" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • are used mainly for competitive sport and pleasure. Equine endeavor may be ... rodeo, cow horses, cutting, and western pleasure, among others. ...
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  • the questions of xing (human nature), li (principle) and ming (fate). ... ills, such as opium addiction and wanton pleasure-seeking. ...
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  • morality of Jeremy Bentham, in which the pleasure and pain resulting from ... before the application of your favorite principle, and of those taking place ...
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  • Although the Liberal Party promoted the principle of laissez-faire against ... thought it was impossible to quantify pleasure and define “the greatest ...
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  • agents of the Crown served "at the pleasure of the King," public ... in conflict with the Constitution. This principle of judicial review was ...
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  • mind in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated ... on the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Freud approached the ...
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  • Adorno, who stated: "The main principle he conveyed was that of ... to those seeking to find meaning and pleasure in their encounter with music. ...
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  • the body, which functions according to the pleasure, or instant gratification, principle. If the need is not satisfied immediately, it becomes stronger ...
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  • the most part founded on the underlying principle that the Prime Minister ... holds office "at His Majesty's pleasure." In reality the convention ...
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  • the bees for honey but rather for the pleasure of conserving a native species ... *Sideliners—They use beekeeping as a way to supplement their principle ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Materialism is sometimes allied with the methodological principle ... Because all that exists is matter, pleasure and pain are central facts ...
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  • of the monarch butterfly reflects the principle of altruism since an adult ... garden. Others enjoy raising them for pleasure or for educational purposes. ...
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  • of life (e.g., the "anthropic principle"). ==Philosophy of ... of life in the search for the highest pleasure or happiness. ...
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  • Feynman's thesis applied the principle of stationary action to ... in the Manhattan Project in his book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. As ...
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  • lack (manque) connive to make of the pleasure principle the regulator of the ... the subject to transgress the "pleasure principle." ...
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  • 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 ...
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