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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 ...

human beings, as well as states such as pleasure, and the experience of beauty ... These states include things such as pleasure, freedom, and knowledge. ...

for the first time in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, where Freud used it ... them. This appeared to violate the pleasure principle, "the drive of ...

Kāma (Devanagari: काम) is the Indian notion of pleasure, which ... by which a couple can maximize sexual pleasure. Included in this corpus ...

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 ...

to bring about as much happiness of pleasure, to achieve the "greatest ... the greatest net happiness (or pleasure). Hedonism is no longer ...

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 ...

only, to the exclusion of any other principle, such as reflection. #039;s smell-experience will produce pleasure or pain; and pleasure and ...

of the linguistic meaning called the principle of verifiability. This ... of ethical language while adhering to the principle of verification. If all ...

There was no permanent or absolute principle such as divine justice ... Sophists often identified happiness with pleasure and promoted secular ...

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 ...

on our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain" (Essay on ... of others the necessary occasion of pleasure, and their dislike, condemnation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Laws, Plato applies this principle to electing a government ... According to the principle of the Golden Mean in ancient Greek philosophy ...

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 ...

three possible objects of goodness: Pleasure, freedom from pain, and ... and Free Will, Carneades argued that the principle of bivalence (the principle ...

– 1849), in his essay "The Poetic Principle," argued that: ... the arts should provide refined sensuous pleasure, rather than convey moral ...

of Gary Numan's 1979 album, The Pleasure Principle, like John Foxx's ... *1950 Making an Entrance, The Legend of the Centuries, Towards Pleasure ...

with both free will and the desire for pleasure, influenced the writings ... but developed a Christianized concept of pleasure. He believed that God endowed ...

path, mastering the art of transmuting pleasure into transcendent bliss. ... *Simmer-Brown, Judith. Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle ...

be defined as welfare, happiness, or pleasure). While psychological egoism ... since no empirical instance could in principle disprove the hypothesis ...

that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction to ... that harmony is an objectively existing principle that constitutes the cosmos ...

a philosophy based on the ego, sensuous pleasure, and glorification of self ... into English as The Child of Pleasure—was followed in 1891 by ...

and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot's principle outlined in a paper he ... priority. At the end I wish to express my pleasure because an authority like ...

Hedonism--pursuit of pleasure is the only guiding principle for human ... *Forke, Anton, tr. Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure. London: Wisdom ...

cannot be compared with the value of pleasure. In this he adopts a view ... of the linguistic meaning called the principle of verification. This principle ...

The main principle of the "Catechism"—"the ends justify ... students? ... I could imagine no greater pleasure than serving the revolution ...

the universe is constituted of an active principle, god, and a passive principle ... basic human impulse was the pursuit of pleasure, the Stoics identified the ...

anticipates Freud's Beyond The Pleasure Principle. ... a relation between the beautiful and pleasure. He argues that "I ...

be defined as welfare, happiness or pleasure). This description is verified ... ulterior self-interested motive, such as pleasure. Perhaps our soldier believes ...

Godwin meant "the adoption of any principle of morality and truth into ... to him, a greater sum of benefit or pleasure will result than could have ...

Laplace, and Biot never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretic ... who actually constructed a lens on that principle, and fully availed himself ...

and dog fighting and the hunting for pleasure which has decimated wild ... Are Equal,” Singer argues that the principle of equality demands equal ...

'because'; and the verification principle. The latter part of the ... do philosophers need a "hidden" principle to explain their super ...

cycle as well as an observable principle of nature. This cycle is ... the length of this punishment or pleasure. The fate of the soul is ...

Mill formulated the “greatest happiness principle,” which held ... philosopher the concept of the “harm principle,” which holds that each ...

to that for the deacon; and so on the principle lex orandi, lex credendi—the ... that values power over life, control over pleasure, and dominance over happiness ...

are used mainly for competitive sport and pleasure. Equine endeavor may be ... rodeo, cow horses, cutting, and western pleasure, among others. ...

the questions of xing (human nature), li (principle) and ming (fate). ... ills, such as opium addiction and wanton pleasure-seeking. ...

morality of Jeremy Bentham, in which the pleasure and pain resulting from ... before the application of your favorite principle, and of those taking place ...

Although the Liberal Party promoted the principle of laissez-faire against ... thought it was impossible to quantify pleasure and define “the greatest ...

agents of the Crown served "at the pleasure of the King," public ... in conflict with the Constitution. This principle of judicial review was ...

mind in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated ... on the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Freud approached the ...

Adorno, who stated: "The main principle he conveyed was that of ... to those seeking to find meaning and pleasure in their encounter with music. ...

the body, which functions according to the pleasure, or instant gratification, principle. If the need is not satisfied immediately, it becomes stronger ...

the most part founded on the underlying principle that the Prime Minister ... holds office "at His Majesty's pleasure." In reality the convention ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Materialism is sometimes allied with the methodological principle ... Because all that exists is matter, pleasure and pain are central facts ...

of the monarch butterfly reflects the principle of altruism since an adult ... garden. Others enjoy raising them for pleasure or for educational purposes. ...

of life (e.g., the "anthropic principle"). ==Philosophy of ... of life in the search for the highest pleasure or happiness. ...

Feynman's thesis applied the principle of stationary action to ... in the Manhattan Project in his book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. As ...

lack (manque) connive to make of the pleasure principle the regulator of the ... the subject to transgress the "pleasure principle." ...

Deity, we should probably take particular pleasure in cutting off believers ... to resort to the wager, a precautionary principle, as a reason to decide ...

kibbutz ideology. Kibbutz members took pleasure in bringing the land back ... Until the 1970s, the principle of equality was taken extremely seriously ...

and prosperity, namely, the surplus of pleasure over pain. In Social Statics ... Spencer believed that the first principle of ethics was "the ...

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 ...

that as a youth, Judah Ha-levi enjoyed a life of pleasure. ... on the world; he abandoned frivolous pleasure, and his poetry turned to ...

quot;raku" which translates as "pleasure." ... institution in Japan, is rooted in the principle of Zen Buddhism and founded ...

known quote, "To appreciate and find pleasure in curiously curved potted ... deeper than those used today. The main principle was now the removal of ...

moral law, wealth or material welfare, pleasure, and liberation or emancipation ... B.C.E.). Anekantavada is a basic principle of Jainism positing that ...

equally accessible to all citizens. This principle is now so fundamental to ... *Public Pleasure Grounds, San Francisco, California *Riverside Drive ...

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 ...

life-long learning, and reinforce the pleasure of encountering and mastering ... " while other see the Montessori principle of "freedom within ...

Thus vacillate I between dangerous pleasure and tried soundness; being ... inculcating its converts with an ascetic principle that could endure and survive ...

acts is the reason, which is the first principle of human acts. (Aquinas ... due to his lack of self control and desire for pleasure, ...

pantheism, a violation of the Maimonidean principle that God is in no sense ... of influencing it is the chief practical principle of Hasidism. This communion ...

only interests were the stage, and the pleasure that he derived from writing ... trick provides the play's organizing principle and the turning-points ...

antagonism to the Everlasting No, and the principle that there is no such thing ... the life of humanity, and has a malicious pleasure in scoffing at everything ...

The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ... the false assumption that the "luck principle" is true. The luck ...

associations with fertility, wealth and pleasure are evidenced in the sea ... of the northern Germans already has the principle traits of the Scandinavian ...

there was an outcry over his murder, the principle upon which he made a stand ... Having previously been a merry, pleasure-loving courtier, Becket ...

forgetful of the Lord, attaches itself to pleasure and thus is bound (Svetasvatara ... John's Gospel applies this same principle to Christianity when John ...

intervened she must remain true to the principle of liberty. If American ... redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people ...

whose writing systems employ the phonemic principle, ordinary letters may be ... quot; /ˈprɛʃər/ and "pleasure" /ˈplɛʒər/ can ...

Europe as finally establishing the principle and value of the barometer. ... and Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics), and as ...

to become recollected, and so I took much pleasure in it and decided to follow ... a papal sanction for her founding principle of absolute poverty and ...

Though disagreeing on the principle underlying a Regency, Pitt agreed ... *David, Saul. Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making ...

of a society from the so-called universal principle of the desire of wealth. ... individual" or the "calculus of pleasure and pain" as the only ...

create man holy, it was of His "good pleasure" and "mere and ... what he regarded as the inner, moving principle of the revival, the doctrine ...

strict reasoning based on an original principle, in Hume’s eyes, is pure ... to solve the problem by stating that the principle of cause and effect is ...

unwarranted fear and allowing men to take pleasure in the pain or weakness ... over the individual. The second important principle is freedom, which the state ...

polyalphabetic cipher was, at least in principle, for it was not properly ... glass, through which you may receive the pleasure either of sun or air, according ...

A characteristic principle of Manichean theology is its dualism. Mani ... Autophyes (Essential nature) and Hedone (Pleasure), Acinetos (Immovable) and ...

Thus vacillate I between dangerous pleasure and tried soundness; being ... its early converts with an ascetic principle that could endure and survive ...

could enjoy what was perhaps the greatest pleasure of his whole life—acting ... His affirmation of civil rights and the principle of religious freedom would ...

the mind. Id impulses are based on the "pleasure principle": instant gratification of one’s own desires and needs. Freud believed that the ...

judgment, the first step to achieve Hêdonê, or pleasure. ... The main principle of his thought is expressed in the word "acatalepsia ...

the continent man it obeys the rational principle and presumably in the temperate ... for the greatest number of people. The principle of utility is a criterion ...

or if he was truly committed to the principle of freedom of religion ... We … declare, that it is our royal will and pleasure, that from ...

gluttony, extravagance, drunkenness, pleasure, profligacy, and abandonment ... " therefore, "is overcome in principle but not in fact."Niebuhr ...

Superseding this organizational principle, each of these three sections ... of sexual intercourse with demons, on the pleasure and pain experienced by ...

in which reality was sacrificed to the pleasure principle. Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects ...

of Vatsyayana, which celebrates sexual pleasure, has become popular in the ... It is said that all humans seek kama (pleasure, physical or emotional) ...

old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?" ... in it. While Islam accepts the Torah in principle, the view of Islamic scholarship ...

pain is chosen to be experienced before pleasure. Most learn this activity ... Peck's community-building methods differ in principle from team ...

with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces ... including, Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. ...

being a "hedonist" who seeks pleasure and avoids pain, and a ... idea was known as the "felicitation principle," namely that whatever ...

of a representation is determined in principle solely by how it relates ... true nor false. This contradicts the Principle of bivalence: every sentence ...

with Zaiyuan and Duanhua, two of the principle regents, while Sushun was ... would escape from the palace and seek pleasure in Beijing. For several ...

of the people for their livelihood. In principle they do not own property ... first three Hindu goals of life: kama (pleasure), artha (wealth and power ...

Keyboard works were sometimes written largely for the pleasure and ... absorption of tonality as a structuring principle of music. This was particularly ...

senshuraku, which literally means the pleasure of a thousand autumns. This ... Eastern style both superficially and in principle. Most martial arts award ...

and consumption based on the guiding principle "From each according ... Gender equity can be a common principle, although it ranks as a ...

not for what it brings you in pain or pleasure. Doing this will ensure ... variant of Classical Sanskrit, so that in principle the core of the work may ...

possessions, to power, to food, to pleasure—they will also remain trapped ... nature of the Dharma, which is an eternal principle and an unconditioned and ...

on social justice and standing up for principle remained with him throughout ... which led him to find that the so-called principle of extensionality—the ...

understanding of God (the essence of the pleasure of heaven). ... relationship with mortals on earth, the principle of continuity seemed to ...

Manuelito (1818-1893) was one of the principle war chiefs of the Navajo ... and sometimes verbs in Navajo using the principle of letter and word substitution ...

by Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle, he wrote in his "Anti ... upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador ...

by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." ...

|It is unnatural and deviant, violating the principle of male-female ... interpreted as an emphasis on the sexual pleasure of the active partner, although ...

spiritual and material concerns, between pleasure and worship, work and prayer. ... would not agree in error.” The principle of shura (consultation ...

An important guiding principle of Buddhist practice is the Middle ... Undertaking and upholding the five precepts is based on the principle ...

enfranchise or disfranchise boroughs at pleasure. Any show of independence ... and it became an accepted political principle that the support of the ...

give obvious testimony in biology to the principle of living for another and ... stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to effects ...

land for land in the west, and its principle signers John Ridge and ... and that for each animal killed for pleasure or without proper ceremonies ...

is incompatible with the Jewish Noachide principle, which still gives pride ... of the Spirit, made devotion the deepest pleasure. As far as Paul was concerned ...

of illness. Enduring satisfaction and pleasure result from living creatively ... The revolt of the slave in morals begins in the very principle of ...

rather than a as a fundamental life principle. His resignation encouraged ... animal passions and the desire for pleasure. He was vegetarian, but ...

theory of relativity which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform ... quit, he would later take great pleasure in Mozart's violin sonatas. ...

of 1941, Himmler and Hitler agreed in principle on the complete mass extermination ... hatred committed the crimes with sadistic pleasure. Crowd psychology has attempted ...

character of creation was a fundamental principle of El Greco's style ... movement, "we refer with pleasure and with steadfastness to ...

and social aspects of humans and is the principle characteristic differentiating ... as it runs counter to the pursuit of pleasure is a common theme in certain ...

Louis XV (reigned 1715-1774) sought escape in pleasure, discredited ... the Citizen. The Republic is based on the principle of laïcité, that is of ...