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  • Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad....
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  • Hedonism (redirect from Pleasure theory)
    of something. Pleasure contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. Discussions within hedonism usually focus more on pleasure, but...
    63 KB (7,333 words) - 08:34, 6 August 2024
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    Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest, sustainable pleasure in the form of a state of ataraxia (tranquility and freedom from fear) and...
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  • of American freedom that he was only free to take pleasure in something he possessed." An abrupt change in the narrative finds Hemings leaving Jefferson...
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    amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun". The term recreation appears to have been used in English first in the late 14th century, first in the sense...
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    just any tendency or habit but something that influences what causes pleasure or pain. A virtuous person feels pleasure when they perform the most beautiful...
    158 KB (18,261 words) - 20:09, 3 August 2024
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    experienced as something which is immediately added to our consciousness. On the other hand, pleasure is only ever negative, which means it only takes away something...
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  • Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979, by Factory Records. The album was recorded...
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    The Pleasure Garden is a 1926 British–German silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his feature film directorial debut. Based on the 1923 novel...
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    Dominance and submission (category Articles lacking in-text citations from April 2010)
    messaging systems. In other cases, it can be intensely physical, sometimes crossing into sadomasochism. In D/s, both parties take pleasure or erotic enjoyment...
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    Desire (redirect from Desire in religion)
    desire presents its object in a favorable light, as something that appears to be good. Besides causing actions and pleasures, desires also have various...
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    are the reality principle and the pleasure principle. The pills were used as props in the 1999 film The Matrix. In the film The Matrix, the main character...
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  • decision, he stated: "I wanted to do something that really honors his presence in this new chapter and really do something for him. And I realized there’s...
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  • hypothesis of a compulsion to repeat—something that would seem more primitive, more elementary, more instinctual than the pleasure principle which it over-rides"...
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  • as something belonging to the past ... the compulsion to repeat the events of his childhood in the transference evidently disregards the pleasure principle...
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  • its storylines. However, some critics described the series as a "guilty pleasure" and acknowledged the family's success. Despite its negative reviews, Keeping...
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  • moved." He continued, "By the end, Something New delivers all the usual pleasures of a love story, and something more. The movie respects its subject...
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  • Hedonic motivation refers to the influence of a person's pleasure and pain receptors on their willingness to move towards a goal or away from a threat...
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  • practice. When used in the context of dominance and submission, the dominant partner is often encouraged to prioritize their own sexual pleasure over that of...
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    Schadenfreude (category Concepts in ethics)
    Pilgrimage, where a gladiator in ancient Rome expects to be "butchered to make a Roman holiday" while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering...
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