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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



... the hedonism of Aristotle, nor his defense of poetry on moral grounds through his theory of katharsis, is usual in Greek criticism. Isocrates and Xenophon adhere to the usual opinion. Isocrates believes that Homer was prized by the earlier Greeks because ...
— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism • Donald Lemen Clark


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


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