Epicurean Hedonism as Qualitative Hedonism.
Epicurus’ theory of what is good for a person is hedonistic: only pleasure has intrinsic value. Critics object that Epicurus is committed to advocating sensualist excess, since hedonism seems both to imply that more pleasure is always of some good for you, and to recommend even debauched, sensual ki...
| Published in: | Journal of Value Inquiry Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 411 - 428 |
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Dec2018
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