Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Excellence in Science is Confessedly Most Pleasant
At least the pursuit of Science is thought to contain Pleasures admirable for purity and permanence
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – Pleasure, Good and Happiness
First, because we maintained that Moral Virtue and Moral Vice are both concerned with Pains and Pleasures
Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 God Has Provided Cycles in Which We Can Be Occupied
So far, the answer to the question, “what advantage is there?”, is ‘enjoy the activity of labor and it’s fruit.’ To find pleasure is from God.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 Enjoy Good Labor and God Adds Joy to Wisdom and Knowledge
24a There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. Here is another translation based on the Hebrew text. There is nothing more pleasant for a human being than to eat and drink and go forth and make the soul agreable for labor. 24b This […]
Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 Experiment Complete and All was Vanity
9 Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem The experiment comes to an end and all three parts of the exercise are restated; Vanity of Wisdom, Knowledge, Madness, and Folly, Vanity of Physical Stimulation, and Vanity of Increasing Wealth. An argument can be made that these things do […]
Vanity of Physical Stimulation – Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
In Part two of the experiment, the collector of sentences explores physical stimulation and it’s work and deeds. Again the preacher found physical pleasure to הָ֫בֶל – hā·ḇel – emtiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory.