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noun

Hedonism n.

The doctrine of the Hedonic sect; the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.

The ethical theory which finds the explanation and authority of duty in its tendency to give pleasure.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hedonism" Quotes from Famous Books

... way too. But a man has got to put all that sternly behind him and do the world's work for the world's wages, if he means to amount to anything. It's only a finer kind of self-indulgence, after all—egoistic Hedonism and that sort ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

... profession that was ours. And both of us fell into it accidently, as so many others have done. Yet the appeal for schoolmasters should surely not be based entirely or even mainly on the idyllic picture of the happy schoolmaster. John Stuart Mill reduced hedonism to its fundamental paradox when he declared that the way to find happiness was to turn your back on it. If there is one lesson which political education rightly conducted cannot fail to impress upon its best boys, it is the crying need of the schools for ...

— The School and the World • Victor Gollancz and David Somervell

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