hedonist's Usage Examples:

When Otto Ritschl interprets values hedonistically - recoiling from Hegel's idealism the whole way to empiricism - he brings again to our minds the doubt whether hedonist ethics can serve as a foundation for any religious belief.

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

The second confusion is the tacit assumption that the pleasure of the hedonist is necessarily or characteristically of a purely physical kind; this assumption is in the case of some hedonistic theories a pure perversion of the facts.

- dwells so much upon the rewards of goodness, as bribes (we must almost say) to rational self-love, that some have called Butler himself an ethical hedonist; though his sermon on the " Love of God " ought surely to free him from that charge.

In the Principles of Ethics Spencer, though relying mainly on the objective order of nature and the intrinsic consequences of actions for the guidance of conduct, conceives the ethical end in a manner intermediate between the hedonist and the evolutionist.

It should be observed, however, that this choice of pleasures by a hedonist is conditioned not by "moral" (absolute) but by prudential (relative) considerations.

"He accepted bodily without farther questioning the hedonistic psychology by which the Utilitarians sought to justify their theory while he rejected the theory itself.

Could the culture be reasonably described as hedonistic or materialistic?Hedonistic theories of conduct have been held from the earliest times, though they have been by no means of the same character.

It is perhaps too much to hope that the long-continued controversy between hedonists and anti-hedonists has been finally settled.

Philosophy, in the Greek view, should be the art as well as the science of good life; and hedonistic philosophy would seem a bungling and uncertain art of pleasure, as pleasure is ordinarily conceived.

Synonyms:

pagan, man-about-town, playboy, pleasure seeker, sensualist, Corinthian,

Antonyms:

nonreligious person, religious, religious person,