Repeat the Sounding Joy
$74.00
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals
Product Description
Description
The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure
Additional Information
| Manufactures | Advent, Christmas, Customised cards, Easter, Reformation |
|---|
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.