and even theories constructed in philosophy departments. The glow of these beliefs, at their best,...
Philosophy On the measurability of pleasure and pain UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Fred Feldman KlocksiemJustin AllenThe topic of my dissertation is the hedonic calculus. The hedonic calculus presupposes that pleasure and pain come in amounts amenable to addition, subtraction, and aggregation ...
One argument stems from the observation that pleasures and pains are essentially transient and ephemeral. Another argument proceeds from the observation that interpersonal comparisons of pleasure and pain appear to be impossible. A third, closely related to the first two, argues that pleasure and pain...
which is associated with one of the sharpest and most intense of all bodily pains. On the last day of his life, he penned this remarkable letter to his friend and follower Idomeneus, which is nothing if not a testament to the overriding powers of philosophy. ...
But in the letter form, where the participants are not chosen and the subjects treated do not depend on any design or predetermined plan, the author allows himself the advantage of adding philosophy, politics, and ethics to the novel, and of linking it all together by a secret and, in a...
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.” –Jeremy Bentham “Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller [that] there is. LOVE.” ...
writings in philosophy that have given him special pleasure he has chosen some of the most readable. He offers them here, to- gether with his comments and explanations. The reader thus has a chance to plunge directly into some of the liveliest and most provoca... (展开全部) 我来说两句 短...
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What we call a 'being', or an 'individual', or 'I', according to Buddhist philosophy, 根据佛教哲学,所谓 「众生」、「个人」及「我」, is only a combination of ever-changing physical and mental forces of energies, 只是经常在变动着的物质 与精神力量或能力的综合。 which may be divided into...
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