Noun:

இன்பமே சிறந்த நலம் என்னும் கோட்பாடு,

hedonism's Usage Examples:

One can readily understand the popularity of the Crusades, when one reflects that they permitted men to get to the other world by fighting hard on earth, and allowed them to gain the fruits of asceticism by the ways of hedonism.

Thus we pass from Egoistic to Universalistic hedonism, Utilitarianism, Social Ethics, more especially in relation to the still broader theories of evolution.

What sets modern hedonism apart from the traditional hedonist is the degree of control that one has over pleasure felt.

The denial of a fixed human nature also corrodes an ethics based on human pleasure or happiness, like hedonism and utilitarianism.

This pessimistic attitude is far removed from the positive hedonism of Aristippus.

A second type of hedonism - less ignoble, but perhaps also less logical - calls men to seek the happiness of others.

Practically speaking ancient hedonism advocated the happiness of the individual: the modern hedonism of Hume, Bentham and Mill is based on a wider conception of life.

It was clear that if philosophic hedonism was to be established on a broad and firm basis, it must in its notion of good combine what the plain man naturally sought with what philosophy could plausibly offer.

Moreover, hedonism has, especially by its critics, been very much misrepresented owing mainly to two simple misconceptions.

Developing from this is a new point of practical importance to the hedonism of the Cyrenaics.

The confusion already alluded to between "pure" and "rational" hedonism is nowhere more clearly exemplified than in the misconceptions which have arisen as to the doctrine of the Epicureans.

This hedonism, however, is not confined to the self (egoistic), but involves a due regard to the pleasure of others, and is, therefore, distinguished further as universalistic.

Synonyms:

morals, ethical motive, ethics, morality,

Antonyms:

immoral, wrongness, evil, pure, immorality,