October 24, 2017

BURNING PASSION Part 1

Is life all about pleasure?Do you think otherwise?Anyway,it is a philosophical matter,beyond the grasp of mere mortals.It was Sigmund Freud who claimed that the pleasure principle is one of the greatest and strongest hungers and drives there is in human heart.Many folks criticised him including a couple of his own colleagues.A neo-Freudian by the name Alfred Adler disagreed with him and enthused rather than pleasure,it is power.He belong to the Lord Acton school of absolute power corruption and stood in favour of power,which is the dominating passion in the human heart.However,in the principle of utility Jeremy Bentham(1748-1832) was an English reformer,whose life spanned the great revolutions of Europe,such as The Enlightenment, French Revolution and the post Napoleonic era,noted;"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters,pain and pleasure"...... Sometimes,the claims in support of power,is basically ratiocinated and infact in most cases,it is not power.But simply the lure to

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