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	Paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paradoxes which are not based on a hidden error generally happen at the fringes of context or language, and require extending the context (or language) to lose their paradox quality.
		Paradox of hedonism: When one pursues happiness itself, one is miserable; but, when one pursues something else, one achieves happiness.
		Supplee's paradox: the buoyancy of a relativistic object (such as a bullet) appears to change when the reference frame is changed from one in which the bullet is at rest to one in which the fluid is at rest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paradox (2406 words)

	Hedonism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hedonism can be conjoined with either Psychological or Moral Egoism to make psychological hedonism a purely descriptive claim which states that agents naturally seek pleasure, or ethical hedonism, the claim that we should act so as to produce our own pleasure.
		The Utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill is sometimes classified as a type of hedonism, as it judges the morality of actions by their consequent contributions to the greater good and happiness of all.
		Christian Hedonism is a term for a theological movement promoted by several prominent church leaders of past and present, the tenets of which are that humans were created by (the Judeo-Christian) God with the purpose of lavishly enjoying God through knowing, worshipping, and serving him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hedonism (566 words)

	Paradox of hedonism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The paradox of hedonism was first explicitly noted by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics.
		Happiness is often naively equated with pleasure, though sometimes the identification of the two concepts has been argued as part of a greater philosophical position called hedonism.
		Aristotle might possibly have also noted the paradoxical side of pursuing pleasure, though not, at any rate, as clearly as Sidgwick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paradox_of_hedonism (420 words)

	Learn more about Hedonism in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Another summary of hedonism, "Pleasure is the highest good" avoids some of these complexities, at the cost of not saying anything of practical consequence...
		The utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill is sometimes classified as a type of hedonism, since it judges the rightness of actions from the happiness that they lead to, and happiness is identified with pleasure.
		Some of Sigmund Freud's theories of human motivation have been called psychological hedonism; his "life instinct" turns out to be the (startling!) observation that people pursue pleasure.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/he/hedonism.html (312 words)

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		Hedonism is a word used to describe any way of thinking that gives pleasure a central role.
		Another summary of hedonism, "Pleasure is the highest good" avoids some of these complexities, at the cost of not having clear, practical consequences.
		Christian Hedonism is a term for a theological movement promoted by several prominent church leaders of past and present, the tenets of which are that humans were created by (the Judeo-Christan) God with the purpose of lavishly enjoying God through knowing, worshipping, and serving him.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Hedonism (359 words)

	Hedonism
		Hedonism indicates a system of thought, a lense through which to view the universe in which the "summum bonum", the "highest good" of man and the ultimate purpose of his being is found in the enjoyment of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
		The roots of Hedonism can be traced back to the fifth century BC to the ancient Greek school of the Cyrenaics.
		Hedonism capitalizes on the natural attraction to pleasure and aversion to pain with which we, as feeling creatures, are naturally endowed.
	www.angelfire.com /az/experiment/hedonism.html (942 words)

	Paradox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a person may be more than N years old on his Nth birthday.
		Unexpected hanging paradox: The day of the hanging will be a surprise, so it can't happen at all, so it will be a surprise.
		A professional organization once found that economists with a Ph.D. actually had a lower average salary than those with a BS — but this was found to be due to the fact that those with a Ph.D. worked in academia, where salaries are generally lower.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Paradox (2279 words)

	Hedonism
		Indeed, the ‘paradox of hedonism’ is, roughly, the claim that those motivated in favour of pleasure get less of it, and those motivated against pain get more of it (see Sidgwick 1907, 48f).
		Here are some standard candidates: the soldier with no belief in the afterlife who opts for a painful death for himself to save his comrades, the parent motivated to give her or his child a good start in life, the walker motivated to kick a stone just ‘for the hell of it’.
		Motivational hedonism is also most plausibly stated in terms of what one takes to be pleasure, whereas it is more plausible that value is a matter of actual pleasure or of what one would reasonably take to be actual pleasure.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/hedonism (4620 words)

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		Hedonism is any theory 9 that gives pleasure a 7 central role.
		The 0 simplest form of 8 hedonism in ethics is "whatever causes pleasure is right".
		The utilitarianism of John 8 Stuart Mill is 3 sometimes classified as a 6 type of hedonism, 8 since it judges 5 the rightness of 5 actions from the happiness 6 that they lead 4 to, and happiness 2 is identified with 3 pleasure.
	www.rutle.com /hedonism_.htm (278 words)

	Paradox of hedonism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The paradox of (An ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good) hedonism was first explicitly noted by the philosopher (Click link for more info and facts about Henry Sidgwick) Henry Sidgwick in The Ethics of Methods.
		Happiness is often naively equated with pleasure, though sometimes the identification of the two concepts has been argued as part of a greater philosophical position called (An ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good) hedonism.
		An example of the paradox of hedonism in literature is (United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914)) Ambrose Bierce's "Haita the Shepard".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paradox_of_hedonism.htm (493 words)

	Paradox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word paradox is often used indifferently with contradiction; but where a contradiction by definition cannot be true, many paradoxes do allow of resolution, though many remain unresolved or only contentiously resolved (such as Curry's paradox)..
		Elevator paradox: Elevators can seem to be mostly going in one direction, as if they were being manufactured on the roof, and disassembled in the basement.
		Abilene paradox: People take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do, and therefore defeat the very purposes of what they were trying to accomplish.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Paradox.htm (1975 words)

	Well-Being
		Hedonism — as is demonstrated by its ancient roots — has long seemed an obviously plausible view.
		The simplest form of hedonism is Bentham's, according to which the more pleasantness one can pack into one's life, the better it will be, and the more painfulness one encounters, the worse it will be.
		One problem with this kind of hedonism is that there does not appear to be a single common strand of pleasantness running through all the different experiences people enjoy, such as eating hamburgers, reading Shakespeare, or playing water polo.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/well-being (5996 words)

	Paradox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, the Birthday paradox is more of a surprise than a paradox, while the resolution of Curry's paradox is still a matter of contention.
		Epicurean paradox: The existence of evil is incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent and caring God.
		Olbers' paradox: If the universe is infinite, with infinitely many luminous stars uniformly distributed, the sky should be entirely bright because there's a star in every direction.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pa/Paradox.htm (1908 words)

	Secualr Threats to Christianity: Hedonism - E. Richard Crabtree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For hedonism is the idea that the true goal of life is pleasure, that pleasure is the highest good of man, the guiding principle of human action.
		Hedonism was apparently involved in the error of Adam and Eve, for Genesis records, "The woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise" (Genesis 3:6).
		Hedonism continues as the guiding principle in the lives of millions of Americans, and it may well be the most popular way of life in the world.
	www.dabar.org /SemReview/Volume06/issue3/V6I3A1.htm (1473 words)

	Hedonism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roughly speaking, hedonism is the philosophy of pleasure, the idea that only pleasure is good and only pain is evil or bad.
		More precisely, psychological hedonism is the theory that all human acts are motivated by pleasure or pain, and ethical hedonism is the theory that seeking pleasure is morally right and not doing so is morally wrong.
		The "paradox of hedonism": if pleasure is believed to be the only good (and not ice cream, say) we will never experience pleasure, since pleasure comes from getting what we consider to be good (such as ice cream and other such things).
	academics.vmi.edu /PSY_dr/Hedonism.htm (370 words)

	VARIETIES OF EGOISM AND HEDONISM
		DESCRIPTIVE HEDONISM (which is one type of Descriptive Egoism) = the purely descriptive claim that all human motivation is ultimately aimed at maximizing the net hedonic value one's own life.
		PARADOX OF HEDONISM: For human beings, attempting to maximize the sum of one's pleasures over pains (i.e., attempting to produce hedonic maximization) may not be hedonically maximal (i.e., may not maximize the sum of one's pleasures over pains).
		PARADOX OF EGOISM: For human beings, attempting to maximize the satisfaction of one's self-interested goals and desires may not maximize one's happiness.
	faculty.washington.edu /wtalbott/phil240/hdego.htm (717 words)

	PARADOX FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word ''paradox'' is often used interchangeably with ''contradiction''; but where a contradiction by definition cannot be true, many paradoxes do allow for resolution, though many remain unresolved or only contentiously resolved (such as Curry's_paradox).
		W._V._Quine (1962) distinguished between three classes of paradoxes.
		Ellsberg_paradox: A paradoxical result in experimental decision theory.
	www.witwib.com /index.php?s=paradox (2187 words)

	Hedonism - vitalcoaching.com
		Christian Hedonism is a term for a theological movement promoted by several prominent church leaders of past and present; the tenets of which are that humans were created by God with the purpose of lavishly enjoying God through knowing, worshipping, and serving Him.
		Hedonism is also the name of two infamous all-inclusive hotels in Jamaica that are for adults only and permit nudism at some of the pools and beaches.
		A 384-page travel book, "The Naked Truth About Hedonism II" explains why Hedonism II has the highest repeat guest rate of any Caribbean resort, what antics to expect there, and how to make the most of a trip.
	www.vitalcoaching.com /notes/hedonism.htm (356 words)

	Chapter 6c
		So, if Psychological Hedonism implies that it is psychologically impossible for me to aim at anything but my own greatest happiness, it implies that any ethical theory which says that it is my duty to aim at any other end must be false.
		No non-categorial characteristic of a present or prospective experience can move our desires for or against it except its hedonic quality; but, granted that it has hedonic quality, the effect on our [186] desires is determined jointly by the determinate form of this and by the determinate forms of its categorial characteristics.
		If Ethical Hedonism be the true doctrine of the good, it is no excuse for the miser or the disinterested lover of virtue that they were sound Utilitarians while they were still trailing clouds of glory behind them.
	www.ditext.com /broad/ftet/ftet6c.html (3752 words)

	French Paradox - Personnalités (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the past 20 years I’ve lived passionately, as much in my professional life as in my personal life.
		I have a lot of admiration for people who are passionate and creative, talented people who teach me a great deal - people with whom a real exchange takes place because we’re on the same wavelength.
		Paradoxically, my hedonism stems from a certain discipline in my life.
	www.frenchedonist.com /uk/archive/larue.htm (579 words)

	Hedonism at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some of Sigmund Freud's theories of human motivation have been called psychological hedonism; his "life instinct" is essentially the observation that people pursue pleasure.
		Hedonism, The UK's number 1 swingers club and fetish club for REAL party animals.
		Hedonism parties and club nights are held in upmarket homes, country...
	springknow.com /Hedonism.html (473 words)

	Our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you
		Hedonism is a view which holds that pursuit of pleasure is the ultimate good.
		But ultimately the paradox is that pleasure cannot satisfy.
		Pleasure beauty, personal relationships, all seem to promise so much, and yet when we grasp them, we find that what we were seeking was not located in them.
	www.thisischurch.com /sermon/restless.htm (1214 words)

	Paradoxes - curiouser.co.uk
		Below is a list of paradoxes which you might be interest to research, some of which may be featured at curiouser.co.uk in due course.
		Grandfather paradox: You travel back in time and kill your grandfather before he meets your grandmother, resulting in your never being conceived.
		St. Petersburg paradox: Can it be rational to refuse a small finite entry fee for a game with a possible infinite pay off?
	www.curiouser.co.uk /paradoxes (549 words)

	French Paradox - Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Only the Japanese, with their low-fat diet of fish and rice, had a lower rate.
		The first American journalist to speak of the French Paradox was Edward Dolnick, in a 1990 article for the magazine Health.
		Trace the Paradox through the centuries with the history of olive oil...
	www.frenchedonist.com /uk/discover/wine.htm (654 words)

	Ethics-Learning Objectives
		Understand what is meant by hedonism and the paradox of hedonism.
		Understand how the hedonistic calculus works and be able to identify the seven components of the calculus.
		Understand Bentham’s and Mill’s responses to the question of whether it is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
	chuma.cas.usf.edu /~mercadan/ethics-l.htm (1162 words)

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		The Paradox of Ego-Files is a complicated matter.
		They say that the business of the future is to be dangerous, to 'surf the edges' and 'ride the net', and occasionally try to act cool on the internet relay chat.
		Let me get to the point: We do adore the hackers, phreakers, crackers and masterminds of the networks, and here comes the paradox: as long as they are ignorant teenagers who just talks and never acts.
	www.etext.org /Zines/ASCII/UXU/uxu-300.txt (1017 words)

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		How does the paradox of hedonism apply in this situation?
		Do you think that the paradox of hedonism indicates a real contradiction or simply an apparent contradiction in psychological egoism's foundations?
		What arguments can you give for qualitiative hedonism and how do you distinguish that from quantitative hedonism?
	www.auburn.edu /~whitesw/PHIL1020/pojman.htm (514 words)

	Happiness, hedonism and how to be happy
		The hedonistic paradox: you cannot pursue happiness directly
		A deliberate effort to enjoy oneself, to find happiness or pleasure with alcohol or drugs can be one extreme case of this paradox.
		Another extreme case, at the other end of the scale, can be psychotherapy: continuously looking for possible internal obstacles to one's happiness.
	www.health-nutrition.fsnet.co.uk /happiness.html (1002 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: Hedonism-Heuristic
		Although commonly defended as a moral theory about the proper aim of human conduct, hedonism is usually grounded on the psychological claim that human beings simply do act in such ways as to maximize their own happiness.
		Aristotle argued against any attempt to identify pleasure as the highest good, but Epicurus held that physical pleasure and freedom from pain are significant goals for human life.
		Heraclitus (540-475 B.C.E. Greek presocratic philosopher who used paradox and riddles to argue that the world is constantly changing in discussions preserved only in fragmetary reports.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/h2.htm (779 words)

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