Ethical Theory of Hedonism

Ethical Theory of HedonismAccording to galore(postnominal) scholars, to live ethically humbles to thinks about functions that be beyond one and only(a)s in the flesh(predicate) interests. When one thinks and lives ethically he or she becomes a just tender-hearted cosmos with needs and desires of his own but still living among state who in any case have their needs and desires. Ethics is branch of philosophy that deals with the break down of right and wrong questions and whence helps us to make the right clean-living judgments in the flushts of our insouciant life. This excerpt endeavors at discussing normative and applied morals and in particular hedonism and its application in the twist justice administration. The change of hedonism as a theory in ethics engrosses a identification number of amazing and important decisions. In this excerpt thitherfore two types of hedonism argon also discussed.IntroductionBoth the sad justice administration professionals and t he planetary public ar concerned with the application of ethics in our daily lives. Every physical structure would like to see all the public servants and all people in the world perform their duties in the best way possible. In agreement the peoples behavior the flagitious justice frame uses number of ethical theories where hedonism is one of them. According to Banks (2009), hedonism has been traditionally expressed as the nonion that joyfulness only is intrinsically good (p.333). In his explanations banks says that the only thing that is worth desire just for its own sake is amusement and that joyfulness is the good. Hedonism is therefore the belief that cheer is the sole good. Hedonism was first explained by Epicurus who was a great philosopher from Greek. In the English form Epicurus name appears as epicure, which means a soulfulness whose main enjoyment and satisfaction is gotten from exotic and carefully made food for thought and wine. Epicurus advocated for th e moderate and yet pleasurcapable living where he stated that entertainment is the good for which all human beings aim.On the former(a) hand the inquisition of diversion stick out also result to pain for instance when a person drinks to excess in his or her pursuit for pleasure and suffers stomachaches and headaches. pain in the neck is mostly good as a means since its usually a signal that something is non right and that a change is necessary. Therefore harmonize to the views of Epicurus the best way for one to live is to live in a pleasant manner and at the same time suffer not any of the unwanted effects of pleasant living. According to Banks (2009), the main aim of human living is tranquility of the mind and the health of the body. He did not recommend a life of endless pleasure or sensualism since by pleasure it means the absence of pain on the body as well as the absence of problem in the soul. thus far certain pleasures like making fun of others or taking drugs are a m eans of something dread(a) and therefore would not be good. placidness of the mind is attained through practical wisdom and philosophical understanding.Hedonism appears in two forms which are ethical hedonism and psychological hedonism. Psychological hedonism states that human beings result pleasure and only pleasure in their lives and that all their activities are aimed towards attaining pleasure as well as avoiding pain (Banks 2009 p.334). Ethical hedonism on the other hand states that not only do human beings seek pleasure but they are actually supposed to seek pleasure be baffle pleasure alone is good. In psychological hedonism all actions are motivated or driven by the search for pleasure while the ethical hedonism goes a step further and views the pursuit for pleasure as being normative. However, in its both forms hedonism is criticized by many scholars for trying to give only a single explanation for all human acts.According to Tuner (2000), pleasure is not the only thing that is desirable. Many other things like peace, money, reading and liberty are desirable as means and ends but in hedonism pleasure is desirable as the eventual end. In this study we also find that human beings get pleasure in contrastive ways. pleasance can also be the same even when the sources of pleasure are the same. The hedonists believe that moral goodness is actually an instrumental good and not necessarily an intrinsic good. Moral goodness means doing the right thing even when it does not lead to happiness. According to hedonism, moral goodness can be an instrumental good though it does not always mean that it leave alone result to pleasure (Larry, 2009)The idea of pleasure and happiness being a measure of ethical morality is basically limited to the westerly philosophy. Many people have promoted the hedonistic belief in pleasure from Aristotle and Socrates to John Mill and Jeremy Bentham as well as to others in the coeval times. According to the proponents of hedonis m all human beings are selfish by nature. These supporters represent people do good or bad to others so as to acquire a certain intrinsic pleasure (Everett 2006 p. 36). This pleasure whitethorn be overtime, in the immediate future or may even cause them pain in the immediate sense and eventually cause them pleasure. In this sense its believed that people help others because helping others gives them pleasure. Similarly people do evil because doing evil gives them pleasure.The criminal justice system therefore uses the theory of hedonism to understand the behavior of criminals and what drives them into committing offensive activitys (Turner). This way the criminal justice system is able to give the right penalisations to these law offenders. People have different ways of walking, thinking or acting. When one begins to know an individual there begins to emerge a pattern in train of thoughts. These behavioral patterns and traits are usually studied by the behavioral scientist. For i nstance the law enforcement uses such behavioral studies to monitor dangerous criminals like serial killers (Axelrod Antinozzi 2002 p.22). Deep at bottom the mind of criminals there is psychological reasoning behind the actions that they commit. A criminal will therefore leave a signature or a pattern behind which helps the investigators of the crime scene in analyzing information regarding the crime. incorrupt criminologists view human beings as rational and capable of making bighearted choices. In a well organized society that has rational system of criminal justice therefore, any crime should be defined as the product of an irrational decision. According to Axelrod Antinozzi (2002), all behavior is reduced to shunning of pain and seeking of pleasure. The main question of the criminal justice system is therefore how to make crime less pleasurable and to a greater extent painful to the criminals (p.26). From the perspective of those intending to commit a crime, the pain invol ved should be more painful than breaking the law is worth. Only by making the punishment this way will the Criminal Justice System be able to discourage criminals and those intending to be criminals from indulging into crime. Otherwise if the pain gotten from committing a crime is equal or worth the pleasure derived from the committing it then many would go on committing the crime. The end punishment should always be meant to prevent the criminal from doing further harm to the society after refrain others from committing similar offences. The criminal justice system should therefore be able to choose punishments that will a strong and lasting impression on the mind of the criminal.