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Eden Lin, for instance, in his 2016 paper How to Use the Experience Machine, suggests that we can refocus the thought experiment to turn up the heat on hedonism as follows. Suppose A and B have exactly the same lives, and go through exactly the same experiences.
Sep 4, 2024 · Normative hedonism claims that the pursuit of pleasure is humankind’s primary reason for living (Tiberius & Hall, 2010). Normative hedonism prioritizes short-term pleasure or gain over obligation or duty and often rationalizes these actions with a “you only live once” mentality.
Jul 1, 2023 · Hide and Seek. Philosophy. Meet the Ultimate Hedonist. Aristippus was far more radical than the more famous Epicurus. Updated July 1, 2023|Reviewed by Lybi Ma. Key points. Aristippus of Cyrene,...
Egoistic hedonism is necessarily self-defeating and filled with ironies. The goal of life for an egoistic hedonist is to maximize pleasure, especially one’s own. As a result, hedonists miss out on the enjoyment of activities done for their own sake.
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Oct 17, 2017 · For Aristotle, pleasure accompanies being ethically good for the phronemos (the man of practical wisdom). For the rest of us, we can have these signals go terribly wrong (this is all in Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics). Pleasure is then a symptom of being ethical for the right kind of person.
Jan 29, 2019 · I begin Sect. 1 with a discussion of the nature of happiness, explaining why I prefer to focus on it rather than pleasure. In Sects. 2 – 5, I focus on each of the fundamental goods on Kazez’s list, challenging their plausibility as necessary components of the good life.
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Feb 25, 2020 · The view that pleasure is the good, or, to put I another way, that pleasure is what makes life worth living, is known as hedonism. The word “hedonist,” when applied to a person, has slightly negative connotations.
