Naturally enough, hedonism of whatever kind brings pleasure or satisfaction to the front of a person’s mind. But if we cannot answer them satisfactorily, Christian hedonism falls at the first fence, along with its non-Christian cousins. So we may ask, how does one calculate Christian hedonism? What are the units of satisfaction? How do we decide when we have enjoyed fewer or more of these? Are there different qualities of such units, some ‘higher’ than others? It is easy to see that such questions are not easy to answer. Bentham worked out this idea in some detail. In the case of John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism, the calculus is in terms of utility or satisfaction or pleasure, a ‘felicific calculus’ as his disciple Jeremy Bentham called it. Hedonism was the commonest of philosophies in the civilized galaxy, but it was piquant to hear a playwoman trotting out its mouldy cliches with such fierce solemnity.Hedonism of whatever kind implies a calculus.
It was as though the rebels had managed to kill the spirit of hedonism and turn the Wospan into a drearier, more furtive place.Įthical Hedonism recognised that one had to enjoy oneself where one got the chance these days, but that rather than immerse oneself totally in such diversions, one ought always to behave in a reasonable and reasonably responsible manner, never losing sight of the more general moral issues and their manifestations in society. Other dittos, meant for hedonism, sacrifice some élan vital for hyperactive pleasure cells and high-fi memory inloading. This is particularly frustrating because your sole duty is to serve thousands of ugly urbanites hell-bent on holiday hedonism. While they may have been forced by their own common sense to abandon their initial simpleminded hedonism, they are not out of the woods.
I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week. She was at breakpoint with her most recent beau, bored with his rugby, his healthy hedonism, the smooth self-assured way he embraced her in bed. I call them a sublime super-development of hedonism upon a thoroughly unsalubrious soil.Īt times, Ranunculus wondered if it might not be better to stroll through life as one of his mortal charges, oblivious to all but his own hedonism while entwined in a web of self-importance. It goes without saying, of course, that the asceticism of the one and the hedonism of the other are at many points interchangeable.
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