This is a broad perspective, but one easily applied to our everyday lives. It might help to think of pleasure simply as a subjective state of enjoyment. This is largely due to some highly nuanced philosophical arguments about how we should conceptualise pleasure. Today there are multiple views on what hedonism is. Hedonism has its philosophical roots as far back as Plato and Socrates, but ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is often credited with articulating an early brand of hedonism based not on a life of untamed appetites, but on moderate pleasures and respect for others. We wait for their liver to rebel or their life to come crashing down around them, as of course it must.īut this kind of behaviour is better termed debauchery – extreme indulgence in bodily pleasures and especially sexual pleasures – rather than hedonism. They indulge their carnal appetites in ways we daren’t, with scant regard for consequences. We find these characters so compelling because they seem to reject the sensible, responsible way to live. Central to my responses are (i) a distinction between experiencing a pleasure (i.e., having some pleasurable phenomenology) and being aware of that pleasure, and (ii) an emphasis on diversity in one's pleasures.Futurama’s Hedonism Bot knows what gives him pleasure, and it’s not always the usual suspects. Finally, I offer new responses to the three objections. Next, I argue that hedonists should accept a felt-quality theory of pleasure, rather than an attitude-based theory. I then argue that the right motivation for it is the 'experience requirement' (i.e., that something can benefit or harm a being only if it affects the phenomenology of her experiences in some way).
I begin by giving a precise new definition of it. In this paper, I attempt to revive hedonism. This is mainly due to three highly influential objections to it: The Philosophy of Swine, The Experience Machine, and The Resonance Constraint.
Hedonism has had many advocates historically, but has relatively few nowadays. According to hedonism about well-being, lives can go well or poorly for us just in virtue of our ability to feel pleasure and pain.
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