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Updated: June 11, 2025
I believe in finding our real life more than in sticking to one that is not real for the sake of virtue. Trained inclination is the secret. That is why I should never make a soldier. I love being in a rage no one more it has all the advantages and none of the disadvantages of getting drunk. But I can't do it on the word of command." "Isn't that what is called hedonism?" said Lestrange.
It has been supposed that every interest, whatever its special subject-matter, is an interest in pleasure. Now while a thorough criticism of hedonism would be out of place here, even if it were profitable, a summary consideration of it will throw some light on the truth. Fortunately, the ethical status of pleasure is much clearer than its psychological status.
"If you will look after the buttons, I will tell you the meaning of 'hedonism' and sharpen the jack-knife, and I am not sure that I won't read the Transmigrations to Aunt Mary beside, for the sake of old times. I know where those little old brown books are, too, unless they have been moved from their old places. I am willing to make a good offer, for I have hardly a button to my back, you know.
Man seeks this or that the eternal good, beauty, happiness, pleasure, survival but always he is represented as a seeker. A very popular doctrine, Hedonism, now somewhat in disfavor, represents him as seeking pleasurable, affective states.
Of course much depends upon the way in which the word is applied, because I suppose that the large majority of men are hedonists, in the sense that they pursue as far as possible their own pleasure. But the particular kind of hedonism of which you spoke, Epicureanism, bears the sense of a certain degree of malingering.
Moral science impeded by its chaotic data, and its unrecognised scope. Fallacy in democratic hedonism. Sympathy a conditional duty. All life, and hence right life, finite and particular. Socratic ethics retrospective. Rise of disillusioned moralities. The illusion subsisting in them. Epicurean refuge in pleasure. Stoic recourse to conformity.
We are surrounded on many sides by the same symptoms as those which awoke the unquenchable wrath of Savonarola a hedonism that is more sick of happiness than an invalid is sick of pain, an art sense that seeks the assistance of crime since it has exhausted nature. In many modern works we find veiled and horrible hints of a truly Renaissance sense of the beauty of blood, the poetry of murder.
The egoist may set his affections upon pleasure, and become a representative of Egoistic Hedonism, the variety of egoism normally treated as typical and made the subject of criticism in ethical treatises.
'There is but one way to Corinth, as of old; but which that way may be, oh master of Hermotimus, we know no more than he did of old; and still we find, of all philosophies, that the Stoic route is most to be recommended. 'To despise all things, to make use of all things, in all things to follow pleasure only: that is not the manner of the new, if it were the secret of the older Hedonism.
It smells of oriental cynicism and hedonism. Every woman is a captive queen. But every crowd of women is only a harem broken loose. I am not expressing my own views here, but those of nearly all the women I have known. It is quite unfair to say that a woman hates other women individually; but I think it would be quite true to say that she detests them in a confused heap.
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