Tags / 6 quotes from 4 sources
#pleasure
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Cyberliterature
[...] so too does it [the computer] promise to reshape the spectrum of narrative expression, not by replacing the novel or the movie but by continuing their timeless bardic work within another framework. This book is an effort to imagine what kinds of pleasures such a…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Onishi contro intuizionismo, formalismo ed edonismo
Onishi si occupa soprattutto dell’etica. Propugna i valori di una morale individuale, discostandosi dalla tendenza generale del pensiero Meiji, incline al nazionalismo. Enfatizzando il singolo, anticipò linee dottrinali che si profilarono nella letteratura verso la fine…
Dietro l'utilitarismo si cela l'edonismo
Con queste premesse, non si può che denigrare l’utilitarismo. Questa dottrina aveva fatto moltissimi proseliti in Giappone, e la società feudale la trovava tutt’altro che ostica. Secondo Onishi, dietro all’utilitarismo si cela l’edonismo. Chi cerca la felicità più intensa…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
The slavish pleasure wrongly called aphrodisios
....which the author of the Seventh Letter of Plato, offended at the traditional association of sex with a deity, calls "the slavish and ugly pleasure wrongly called aphrodisios ". p.29
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Pleasure as a center wastes a life
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding…
Pascal's licking the earth
all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, “licking the earth.”