In Buddhism, it’s called craving orattachment: that nagging desire for more or for something different than what is. When we strive for constant happiness or pleasure, we attach ourselves to a feeling that is, like all things, impermanent. This leads to disappointment and...
The purpose of life is “Pleasure,” and the avoidance of pain (algos). Prudence (practical wisdom) is considered the main means to achieve a happy life (eudaimonia), which guarantees the observance of limits even in enjoyment and the correct choice of what we will prefer or avoid (...
In her fiction, utilitarianism as utility, the pursuit of pleasure, utility, avoidance of pain, and calculation of pleasure over pain (the "felicific calculus") is shown by her, paradoxically, often to lead to wrongdoing, suffering, and even crime. For some of her protagonists, however, it...
I’ve learned a new word that I’d like to share with you: Eudaimonia. Eudaimonia is the opposite of hedonism, the idea that happiness comes from the constant pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. Eudaimonia, by contrast, encourages us to pursue meaning and authenticity, growth and hone...
Psychological hedonism is deflned by Webster as " the theorythat conduct is fundamentally motivated by the pursuit of pleasureor the avoidance of pain." Hedonism may not be the sole motiva-tion, but most of us would agree that the pursui... J Snell,BJ Gibbs - 《Advances in Consumer Rese...
Thus Rousseau's education of the young Emile confines itself to fostering the development of the faculties immediately connected with his preservation. His desire for the pleasant and avoidance of the painful is given by nature. His senses are the natural means to those ends. And the physical sc...
The hedonic approach to well-being refers to striving and experiencing positive emotions such as pleasure and enjoyment as well as the avoidance of negative affect (Diener 2009). In contrast, the eudaimonic approach includes aspects of purpose in life, feelings of connectedness, personal growth as...
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On a main road at the week-end you will see men and women, all 'comfortably off, and some very rich, engaged in the pursuit of pleasure. This pursuit is conducted by all at a uniform pace, that of the slowest car in the procession; it is impossible to see the road for the cars,...
On Pleasure Epicurus agrees with Aristotle that happiness is an end-in-itself and the highest good of human living. However, he identifies happiness with the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain rather than with the pure exercise of reason. Pleasure is the highest good, and anything ...