"Happiness is when what you think‚ what you say‚ and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi AS "Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle In Nichomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle argues the highest end is the human good‚ and claims that the highest end pursued in action is happiness. Also‚ Aristotle claims that happiness is achieved only by living a virtuous life - "our definition is in harmony with those who say that happiness is virtue‚ or a particular virtue; because an activity in accordance
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particular kind of “good feeling” and adds something “distinctive and deeply good to life”. -Being involved with something one loves or cares about‚ gives joy and fulfillment to their life. -Feelings classified as “pleasures” are unlikely to provide fulfillment. Some pleasures include: riding a roller coaster‚ or meeting a movie star. -Even though there may be a great deal of stress that goes along with pursuing one’s passion‚ it only adds to the intensity of the fulfillment in the end. The
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landscape surrounding Kubla’s domain is wild and untamed. The first stanza describes the beauty and mystery of Xanadu with rich and exotic images. The poet says “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree:”(1-2). The first two lines talks about the “pleasure-dome” in Xanadu. This “pleasure-dome” was where he lived and ruled. “Where Alph‚ the sacred river ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea”(3-5). This talks about mystery of the area. Alph‚ first letter
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1 Introduction Utilitarianism is a major position in normative ethics stemming from the late 18th and 19th century philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Contrary to the deontological approach to ethics that perceives morality as a duty or a moral rule that has to be followed‚ utilitarianism is a form of teleological ethics focussing on the consequences of actions meaning that the moral value of an action is solely determined by its outcome. Thus an action is considered right if it tends
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Pleasure beyond measure… 1. Executive Summary Wilber Hardee opened Hardees in 1960 in Greenville‚ North Carolina. Hardees was a fast food chain which has now evolved into a restaurant and is famous for its charbroiled burgers‚ curly fries and biscuits. Its Thickburgers®has made waves in history. Today it’s the 4th largest food chain in the world with 1909 outlets world over. Pakistan is the 14th country to host Hardees. The Islamabad franchise was opened in July 2011 by MDS foods. The franchise
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the place Coldridge dreamed of. It is a lyrical poem in four stanzas‚ told in iambic pentameter. In the first two lines‚ Coleridge describes the "pleasure dome" in Xanadu. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree Kubla Khan did not merely order‚ but decree that a "stately pleasure dome" be built. This dome is evidence of how unnatural or unreal the place of Xanadu is it has a ruler who ignores the unpleasantness that can be found in life. He uses his vocabulary
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hear of people committing acts of crime‚ such as rape‚ in order to give them pleasure. On a closer level‚ alcoholics drinking in order to be happy‚ or obese people eating to be happy are examples of abuse of pleasure because they seek the physical sensation as the ultimate end. The problem with every physical pleasure however‚ is that it lasts only temporarily‚ and thus cannot be the ultimate good because physical pleasure is just a feeling and not a maintainable state of
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word‚ philia. Philia is the emotional bond between human beings which provides the basis for all forms of social organizations‚ common effort‚ and personal relationships between people. The three kinds of friendship Aristotle explains are utility‚ pleasure‚ and complete friendship. Friendship based on mutual utility is the kind of friendship that tends to be short-lived‚ coincidental‚ easily formed‚ and is easily dissolved when the abilities or needs of both people change. There is no affectionate
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Power Digs Deep “Do not imagine‚ comrades‚ that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary‚ it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make decisions for yourselves. But sometime you might make the wrong decisions‚ comrades‚ then where should we be?”(Orwell‚59). Animal Farm is an allegorical novel‚ “Animal Farm symbolizes the Russian Revolution which took place in 1917 during World War
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may not be good for another. The supreme good to humans would be happiness. But what constitutes happiness? Humans would be more driven to say a sensual pleasure but this is not all true. This would be only the animal instinct but humans equate happiness with so much more. There are three types of life—that thriving on sensual pleasure‚ the political‚ and thirdly the contemplative life. Most prefer the sensual desires of happiness. Honor shows recognition of goodness therefore being honored
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