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  • of Gary Numan's 1979 album, The Pleasure Principle, like John Foxx's ... *1950 Making an Entrance, The Legend of the Centuries, Towards Pleasure ...
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  • with both free will and the desire for pleasure, influenced the writings ... but developed a Christianized concept of pleasure. He believed that God endowed ...
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  • path, mastering the art of transmuting pleasure into transcendent bliss. ... *Simmer-Brown, Judith. Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle ...
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  • be defined as welfare, happiness, or pleasure). While psychological egoism ... since no empirical instance could in principle disprove the hypothesis ...
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  • that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction to ... that harmony is an objectively existing principle that constitutes the cosmos ...
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  • a philosophy based on the ego, sensuous pleasure, and glorification of self ... into English as The Child of Pleasure—was followed in 1891 by ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Hedonism--pursuit of pleasure is the only guiding principle for human ... *Forke, Anton, tr. Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure. London: Wisdom ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The main principle of the "Catechism"—"the ends justify ... students? ... I could imagine no greater pleasure than serving the revolution ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • anticipates Freud's Beyond The Pleasure Principle. ... a relation between the beautiful and pleasure. He argues that "I ...
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  • be defined as welfare, happiness or pleasure). This description is verified ... ulterior self-interested motive, such as pleasure. Perhaps our soldier believes ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and dog fighting and the hunting for pleasure which has decimated wild ... Are Equal,” Singer argues that the principle of equality demands equal ...
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  • 'because'; and the verification principle. The latter part of the ... do philosophers need a "hidden" principle to explain their super ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Mill formulated the “greatest happiness principle,” which held ... philosopher the concept of the “harm principle,” which holds that each ...
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  • 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 ...
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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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  • and prosperity, namely, the surplus of pleasure over pain. In Social Statics ... Spencer believed that the first principle of ethics was "the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • that as a youth, Judah Ha-levi enjoyed a life of pleasure. ... on the world; he abandoned frivolous pleasure, and his poetry turned to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • life-long learning, and reinforce the pleasure of encountering and mastering ... " while other see the Montessori principle of "freedom within ...
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  • Thus vacillate I between dangerous pleasure and tried soundness; being ... inculcating its converts with an ascetic principle that could endure and survive ...
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