I asked my mom what she thinks about pleasure, and the first thing she told me is that we tend to connect pleasure with guilt. This is what the majority of people think. We usually forget that we need in some way to satisfy our body, our soul, and our feelings, but we forget about that or we do reject those pleasures because we tend to think that enjoy is something bad, something that we should not fee. But what about when we say that we are enjoying a job, that it is a pleasure to do it, and spend hours working because we are very happy about that? Is this kind of pleasure different from the one that is related to sexual relationships? Why? I just know that in our society those pleasures that are connected to private things are the ones that are punished.
Something that made me reflect very much was the difference between “use and abuse”. Perhaps we consider that pleasure is related to guilt because when we satisfied some need, we tend to want more of that, don’t we? And here appears “abuse”, which can make our life a disaster if we let that pleasure to take control over us.Some religions, such as the Catholic think in the same way. They consider that there is a limit between to live and to have some pleasures and to live in order to have those pleasure: that’s why they talk about Capital Sins when we abuse of those pleasures that make us enjoy life
To me, enjoy some pleasures have nothing wrong, but we have to be very careful about looking for that satisfaction in order to live a good life.
Something that made me reflect very much was the difference between “use and abuse”. Perhaps we consider that pleasure is related to guilt because when we satisfied some need, we tend to want more of that, don’t we? And here appears “abuse”, which can make our life a disaster if we let that pleasure to take control over us.Some religions, such as the Catholic think in the same way. They consider that there is a limit between to live and to have some pleasures and to live in order to have those pleasure: that’s why they talk about Capital Sins when we abuse of those pleasures that make us enjoy life
To me, enjoy some pleasures have nothing wrong, but we have to be very careful about looking for that satisfaction in order to live a good life.
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Yes Laura, I really agree with you. Pleasure and guilt are two different things. Anyway, as human beings, specially in our society, we tend to be quite extremist about some ¨subjects´and when it comes to PLEASURE, for most people is like refering to GUILT, I think it might be part of our human nature.
Hi Lau and Silvia!
I do not agree that this association between pleasure and guilt is inherent to our human nature... Instead, as we'll see when we discuss more about the history of human nature, Iit seems to me this concept is most certainly culture-bound... We've been brought up to believe pleasure might easily take control of our will, that is allowed to indulge into pleasure we are almost certain to be unable to fulfill our duties then, that we've come to feel guilty about enjoying what we do... even if it's work or parenthood!
There might have been reasons for such a link somewhere,at some time ... But, as with every learned value, there comes a time when each of us needs to make their own choices...
I hope that I can somehow contribute to each of my students reaching that point in life, and that you can do the same in turn!
Fondly,
Gladys
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