His only clause to this statement is that one must not have a moral obligation to choose one or the other. But, Mill says, one should also consider the pleasure of everyone when making a decision, for the Greatest Happiness Principle should really read the Greatest Happiness (for all) Principle. Mill notes that most of the time people’s decisions rarely affect a wide spectrum of people, and so he says that one need not consider the greatest happiness for all when making a decision, rather just the greatest happiness of those affected by the decision. John Rawls’ theory of social justice deals with the formation of a just society.
Things are admirable or contemptible if they are useful, or pleasant, or both. 474e 36. Since doing wrong is contemptible but pleasant, it must therefore be harmful. 475c 37. Since doing wrong is clearly more harmful than suffering wrong, it must be worse.
The idea of power has many aspects to it and therefore is difficult to define. Some consider power to be authority while others may consider it to be control, yet no matter how many definitions society may come up with there is one undeniable fact. Power is intoxicating. The idea of being superior in anyway shape or form is seducing and almost impossible to turn down. Two admired philosophers, Michel Foucault and John Berger, have blessed the world with their different yet similar views on power and how it is obtained.
It is therefore true to say that inner beauty is something that has to be psychologically or mentally perceived. Many argue that beauty of the inside is far better and more preferable than physical beauty. This is because, despite having any good looks, bad behavior is likely to tarnish one's attractiveness to others to an extent that the superficial attributes do not even matter anymore. One may be the personification of physical beauty but what matters at the end of the day is their inner beauty. Purity within outshines what is on the face and it will always show no matter what he physical looks are.
An activity done by extrinsic motivation may not be done because a person enjoys it, it’s often done because they want the end outcome. Working out is a great example, the result of looking better is extrinsic motivation, and the working out is not done because they like how they feel when they workout. Amotivation is the lack of motivation or drive to do something (McDavid, Cox, & Amorose, 2012). Amotivation is when someone does like doing something and feels there is no need to do that
These hopeless societies are easily indoctrinated by the persuasive tools of propaganda as their fears, anxiety and anger cloud their ability to use logic and reason. Economic hardship has a strong correlation to the effectiveness of propaganda as the poorer people are the more susceptible they are to apparent ‘solutions’ offered by leaders in power. On the contrary, rhetoric does not need a platform of fear and desperation to be of use, as rhetoric, in its traditional form, promotes the use of logic and reason to arrive at an intellectual answer. Although fear and anxiety may be present at a rhetorical act, they are not requirements that are depended on for
and the very fact that we are able to feel guilt tells us that we are human... tells us that that we are a caring person... because if we felt no guilt, then that would mean that we did not care... and it is only the person who does not care that should feel guilt... and yet it is only the person who cares. Who genuinely cares, that does fell guilt... so now it's time for you to be just a little kinder to yourself... to accept that the guilt you have been feeling is the subconscious mind's way of letting you punish yourself for things you feel you may have done wrong... but there is always a limit to the amount of punishment that is needed for any wrong doing... every caring person knows that... and when that limit has been reached, there is no just need or cause for that punishment to continue... and a caring person finds it easy to forgive people their mistakes... so you can now forgive yourself... just as you would forgive others for their errors, their mistakes... because those things you feel you may have done wrong were errors... just mistakes... so there is no need now for your for further punishment... most of the time, nearly all of the time, you don't make these errors... nearly all the
Wiesel discusses the affects that indifference can do to an individual: "And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten" (par. 12). When this is said it shows that even though there can be positive understanding of actions, there can also be a negative context to certain actions as well. Something that Wiesel tries to portray is that whenever there is an action, there can be positive and negative consequences. On the other hand, as Martin Luther King
Dewey believes we consider these more as abilities that exist far from our impulsive desires. So in short, bad habits are acts that make us feel shameful, good habits are admirable. John Dewey mentions though out his writing on habits and will WE are our habit. Now even though I do not entirely comprehend all the points he makes through out the writing, I do know that he mentions several times that to fix or undo our bad habits we must replace with an equally energizing habit that is of goodness. Also to go along with that, you must be able to have more than solely will power to defy a habit.
6). Aristotle also conveys that he believes the virtuous person is more honorable because “he is able to avoid bodily pleasures, but not all pleasures, since there are pleasures of the temperate [virtuous] person too” (NE, VII, ch.12, sec. 7). While the continent person does eventually chose the right action it is more of a deliberation from him to come to a choice because he is aware of the wrong decision as well. The virtuous person does not at all go through this deliberation process because he is not aware of the wrong decision.