Hedonism
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- lifestyle, morality , philosophy
- "Hedonism in the 20th and 21st centuries can best be summarized as sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. A pocket history of hedonism might include jazz during its early years, flower power in the 1960s and disco in the 1970s and house music in the 1980s." --Sholem Stein
- The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.
- A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
Hedonists claim that feelings of pleasure or happiness are the highest and final aim of conduct; that, consequently those actions which increase the sum of pleasure are thereby constituted right, and, conversely, what increases pain is wrong.
Related concepts
basic instinct - bread and circuses - carnivalesque - dance - decadent - Dionysian - egoism - eroticism - escapism - narcissism - pleasure
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