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Hedonism   Listen
noun
Hedonism  n.  
1.
The doctrine of the Hedonic sect; the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.
2.
The ethical theory which finds the explanation and authority of duty in its tendency to give pleasure.





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"Hedonism" Quotes from Famous Books



... they marked in the beginning always clings to them in some measure, and causes many a soul, far more profound than that of the young Protarchus or of the British reader, to long for them to cease altogether. Such a radical hedonism is indeed inhuman; it undermines all conventional ambitions, and is not a possible foundation for political or artistic life. But that is all we can say against it. Our humanity cannot annul the incommensurable ...
— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana


Words linked to "Hedonism" :   moral philosophy, hedonistic, morals, hedonic, ethics, ethical motive, hedonist, morality


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