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On this view, the soul aspires to divine light while the body aims at material pleasures.
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Pleasure
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to divine light, but the, but the body aspires to material pleasures. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. Thanks guys. So tomorrow's..."
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Epicureanism is treated here as the belief that there is no soul, heaven, or hell, so one should simply maximize pleasure while alive.
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A student widens gluttony beyond food to excessive desire and indulgence in pleasures generally.
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Jiang uses a hedonistic reductio to argue that a life organized only around temporary earthly pleasure cannot answer the moral question of what should restrain action.
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Frankist eschatology is described as material pleasure and immortality rather than disembodied spirit.
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Mill's crucial refinement is that pleasure divides into short-term pleasure and long-term happiness, so what feels good now is not necessarily good for life.
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"...to divine light, but the, but the body aspires to material pleasures. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. Thanks guys. So tomorrow's..."
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"remember where we are okay we've crossed the river oxford nicholas and we're in so the river of oscar sticks and we are now..."
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"yourself and for dante this is just pure heresy okay he hates his idea because if you think about it why he hates his..."
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"...a wider definition, it's desiring too much and indulging in excessive pleasures."
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"Yeah. Why not? You know? Like, because you can't, as you say, you can't get drunk and throw up, up there. So do it..."
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"...be like a flowing spirit in space? We can't feel any pleasure. True pleasure is to enjoy life, have as much sex as you..."
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"Pleasure isn't like, okay, whatever makes me happy. Because there are different types of pleasure. There's short -term pleasure and there's long -term pleasure,..."
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"not necessarily to seek pleasure it's it's but it's the purpose is to to seek happiness okay all right so this is a very..."
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"...true story um like if you just you would find tremendous pleasure in writing but if you're really good you would find only agony..."
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"...So we get lost and get confused and we seek material pleasures. And in this chaos, a ruler will come. And try to organize..."
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"...secondary goods with measure, it cannot be the cause of evil pleasure. But when it twists toward evil or tends to good with more..."
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"...the will fights weak, therefore to please him, though against my pleasure, I drew my unquenched sponge out of the water. I moved on,..."
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