This is a question that was brought up in philosophy.
2007-03-26 13:20:10 · 22 answers · asked by kyeann 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The greatest pleasure would be different for just about everyone. Now, if you asked what every body's own individual greatest pleasure was, I could tell you mine. My greatest pleasure is to be a good father to two wonderful daughters whom I love with all my heart. Watching them growing up is a wonderful experience.
2007-03-26 13:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
On a personal level the greatest pleasure would be to be with the man I love and please God at the same time..
On a philosophical note, the greatest pleasure is being able to transcend the human ability to rationalise, and simply "know" with the innermost knowledge that comes from being connected to something greater.. problems are then a pleasure, for you know the sweet fruit of overcoming, and nothing much is found disturbing because balance is found in inbalance.
2007-03-27 08:03:33 · answer #2 · answered by Sugar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the greatest pleasure is the ability to appreciate things, some people can see a sunset, raindrops on leaves hear a baby laughing , consume a delicious meal and not even notice, the ability to appreciate makes the simple things pleasurable
2007-03-26 20:26:54 · answer #3 · answered by Andrea G 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
DURRRR!!!! The greatest pleasure is freedom. freedom from what is the only real questions. Freedom from scocietal norms? Freedom from government? Freedom from responsibility? Freedom of speech?
All desires relate to some kind of freedom... most people in america spend freely they are excersizing a freedom to consume products that they usually leverage, thus cutting off their freedom and putting themsleves in debt.
Many monks practice the exact opposite by having nothing and thus being free from greed and/or indebtedness.
freedom is the greatest pleasure, think about what is pleasure to you and you will see that its root is in some kind of freedom.
2007-03-26 20:32:18 · answer #4 · answered by blameless7 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Love.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-03-26 21:36:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Two very different things:
1. A child running to greet you with arms reaching wide to hug you and welcome in their eyes, and warm words on their lips.
2. A stunning sunset - clouds constantly changing shape and colours from strong vibrant shads to softest pastels, being reflected in a lake - rippled and stippled, lowering sun reflected so deep into the lake that it seems bottomless. The greatest visual pleasure
2007-03-26 22:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since I am an Objectivist--dealing with real-space time--the answer is deep, but not hard to discover.
If what works on Earth is moral, and what unites people in amity is ethics, then the selfish pleasure that's best for me is mastery of anything to which one gives first priority in life--whether it relates to the non-man-created realm of Nature, to man-created values or to people skills.
For me, in each category the answer would be:
1. In Nature, it's learning about the stars, then getting to see them on a clear night, Milky Way and all.
2. In man-created values it's being a great poet/playwright and being able to appreciate my work and that of others.
3. In people skills, the highest value is to love with someone of great value in their own right, who also loves me for the same reason--for what is admirable in me.
2007-03-26 20:28:33 · answer #7 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me is when my small little brain almost feels what the earth would be without us humans in it!
I see the grennery, the whiteness, the savanas, the flight of free birds, the sound of it and sense the true harmony of all!
But back to reality is watchin soccer, zizziling fajitas and beer and sex!
2007-03-26 21:24:24 · answer #8 · answered by cua13 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The greatest pleasure is the one that you keep searching for... in everything
2007-03-26 20:25:23 · answer #9 · answered by cosmicwoman 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My greatest pleasure is making a difference in someone else's life, or making their life more bearable.
2007-03-26 20:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by Mah10 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋