By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. Log In Sign Up. Download Free PDF. Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing. The major problem encountered is the quantification of pleasure. The graph is your proximity indifference curve. How can the information in this graph be used in the general equation on which we are working?
Let's use the slope of the curve at the same time period under consideration? Note the similarity to marginal utility of interest rates in economics. The fecundity of the action for that individual could be determined by the summation of the measure of the sensations of pleasure and pain for that individual which follow the initial sensation of pleasure and pain.
The purity of the sensation of pleasure and pain resulting from the action would be the summation of the measures from the complex of individual pleasures and pains resulting from the action.
CV pdf. Published or Forthcoming Abstracts below. Works in Progress. Plato on Pure Pleasure and the Best Life pdf. Educated at St. Peter's Preparatory School, a Jesuit institution, and then Saint Peter's College in New Jersey, Durant graduated in and was purportedly to begin a career in the clergy. Instead, he took a reporter job with the New York Evening Journal. In , he became a school principal at the Ferrer Modern School and while at the school met and later married a fifteen year-old student!
She would become his ardent fan and collaborator on later works. Durant received his PhD from Columbia University in The scientist is as impartial as Nature in Turgenev's poem: He is as interested in the leg of a flea as in the creative throes of a genius. But the philosopher is not content to describe the fact. He wishes to ascertain its relation to experience in general and thereby to get at its meaning and its worth. He combines things in interpretive synthesis.
He tries to put together, better than before, that great universe-watch which the inquisitive scientist has analytically taken apart. Science tell us how to heal and how to kill.
It reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war. But only wisdom -- desire coordinated in the light of all experience -- can tell us when to heal and.
To observe processes and to construct means is science. To criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy. And because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It is not complete except in relation to a purpose and a whole. Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from despair. Specifically, philosophy means and includes five fields of study and discourse: logic, aesthetics, ethics, politics and metaphysics. These are the parts of philosophy, but so dismembered it loses its beauty and its joy. We should seek it not in its shriveled abstractness and formality -- but clothed in the living form of genius.
We should study not merely philosophies -- but also philosophers. We should spend our time with the saints and martyrs of thought, letting their radiant spirits play about us until perhaps we too, in some measure, shall partake of what da Vinci called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.
Each of the philosophers has some lesson for us -- if we approach him properly. In every man there is something
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