Wednesday, December 23, 2015

HAPPINESS AS PLEASURE

Another common notion of happiness based on "an experience of intense joy, bliss, rapturous, well-deserved celebration". (Guseinov A. A., Apresyan R. G. Ethic. - M., 1998. - S. 298), i.e. the experience of pleasure from anything.
The pursuit of pleasure is especially deeply embedded in the human mind, as from childhood we are raised, spurring pleasures and suffering. This extends to the rest of your life, for later pleasure people elect, and suffering avoided. Some have even become, so to say, servants of pleasure. But there was an understanding of the difference between the pleasures and the fact that not all pleasures lead to happiness. "Pleasures worthy of election, but not all things: thus, for example, being rich is fun, but not the price betrayal, and to be healthy, but not eating anything. Pleasures differ in kind; namely, the enjoyment of beautiful things from different and shameful, and find the fun in just without being just, and in the music without being musical, is impossible; the same is true for other cases". (Aristotle. Vol. in 4 vols. Vol. 4. - M., 1984. - 272 S.).
Speaking of pleasures, you will notice that no one would agree to live with the mindset of a child. This is unlikely even in the case of obtaining all the benefits and pleasures that are so pleasing to children. And no one would choose away from any of the most shameful cases, even if him never have to suffer or be punished.
Thus, can make a preliminary conclusion that pleasure is not actually a good thing and that not every pleasure is to choose. However, the "fun accession to any of the benefits of" just "makes the good more worthy of election. And life enjoyable, if reasonableness is more deserving of election". (Aristotle. Vol. in 4 vols. Vol. 4. - M., 1984. - S. 269).
And yet the condition of such experiences by their nature fleeting. No wonder after Faust we often want to exclaim: "Stop a moment, you're beautiful!" It is in this phrase and reflects the transience of so-called happiness-pleasure and the hopelessness of attempts for him to hold on and prolong it for as long as possible. This happiness-pleasure can be compared with amorous passion, which lights up very quickly, devouring everything around him, but just as quickly fades, leaving behind a feeling of dissatisfaction and slight nostalgia for the past.
Pleasure arises in many senses. "It is also clear that pleasure arises primarily when and the best feeling, and it operates in relation to the same - best to the subject of perception. But if such are the sensual and sentient, in the presence of what works, and what experiences will always be fun. Pleasure makes the activity perfect and complete not as a property, it contains, but as a kind of completeness that arise along the way, like the beauty in people in the Prime of life". (Aristotle. Vol. in 4 vols. Vol. 4. - M., 1984. - S. 274).

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