Page 124 - Pure Life 36
P. 124
Pleasure from the Perspective of… A. Ghanbarian & A. Asgari Yazdi (123
(Ref: Qur’an, 6: 86; Ibid, 7: 80; increasing profit and happiness
Ibid, 11: 70-74 &77&82&89; and reducing unhappiness and
Ibid, 15: 57-58; Ibid, 21: 71-74; harm without any qualification
Ibid, 22: 43; Ibid, 27: 54-56; or restriction to his general
Ibid, 34: 26&28&32-33; Ibid, rule. This means that any
37: 132; Ibid, 38: 13, Ibid, action to increase profit is
50: 12; Ibid, 54: 32-34) permissible; even if it goes
A hadith attributed to Imam against conscience and social
Ali also emphasizes non- norms.
forbidden pleasures: The term profit denotes a
“An intelligent person particular characteristic in
does not engage in trivial everything which tends to
pleasures except in three produce benefit, advantage,
cases: Improving one's pleasure, good, or happiness,
livelihood, taking a step in which prevents harm, pain,
the afterlife, or enjoying a evil, and unhappiness from
non-forbidden pleasure”. befalling the party whose
(Nahjul Balagha, Hikmat. 390) interest is in question. If that
party is the community at
2. Violation of Traditional large, the happiness of the
Moral Rules and Sense of community will be promoted;
Ethics (Moral Intuitions of if an individual, the happiness
Humans) of that individual. (Bentham,
Bentham introduces the sense 2017: 6)
of ethics as the principle of If a brain surgeon who is a
sympathy and antipathy and utilitarian and an uneducated
opposes hedonism. He emphasizes
and thoughtless beggar are on
