Whatever increases pleasure or one's general peace of mind is good, and anything that decreases it is bad. Desires should be restricted to the bounds within which they can be satisfied.
Moderation is counseled not on moral grounds but on one's enablement to enjoy future pleasures in this life. The wise man so regulates his life that, before death, he has the greatest amount of pleasure and the least amount of pain. in psychology, the theory that the attainment of pleasure and the avoidance of pain are the prime motivators of human behavior. Above all one must avoid fear of any kind of god and fear of death. the ethical doctrine that regards pleasure and happiness as the highest good. He dreamt that despite his common American heritage, which he considered to be hypocritical, shallow and hedonistic, he would manage to become famous as the one who revived. For Epicurus the goal of life is not intense pleasure but an abiding peace of mind, a state of cheerful tranquillity. Yugi was born in the early 1990s in South Korea to a Korean mother and American father who met on a spiritual pilgrimage they undertook together to Nepal. It is the only ethics consistent with pure materialism.
341-270 B.C.), who joined it to the physical theories of Democritus (c. An act is good, and therefore virtuous, insofar as it gives present satisfaction. He held that intellectual pleasures are higher than sense pleasures, but what matters is the pleasure here and now available. Misinterpreting the teaching of Socrates (470-399 B.C.), who said that happiness is the end of life, Aristippus identified happiness with pleasure. It was first formulated by the Greek philosopher Aristippus (c. By pleasure, true hedonists understand the admittedly imperfect enjoyments of this life only. The doctrine that pleasure is the goal of life and is man's highest good. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. He refers to the danger of leading our lives on a hedonistic treadmill, seeking more accomplishments and trying to get more things and more money, leading eventually to ever increasing expectations.Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations).
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( General American ) IPA ( key): /hidəˈnɪstɪk/ ship between excessive social anxiety and deficits in hedonic functioning. Ellison, Social Network Sites : Definition, History, and Scholarship, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol.13, No.1, 2007, 210.