![]() Even today it is still the case, and it is easy to see the term being applied easily and lightly, sometimes out of ignorance, sometimes out of laziness. Already in the middle of the 18th century people were wondering, and often confused, about what that is, hedonism. Legend has it that Casanova was one day in the middle of one of his capital sin feasts - gluttony and lust to disguise idleness - when he stopped and thought "wait a minute, Giacomo, aren't you being hedonistic?" The story is apocryphal, but the doubt is perfectly legitimate. Aristippus of Cyrene has had enough of young hedonists. Let's look at this set of philosophical theories that has been aging very badly. ![]() ![]() Corroded by time and corrupted by use, hedonism has become an easy word to define, most of the time, what it does not mean, and to mean almost always what it does not define. Not everything that is said about hedonism is a lie, but most of it is not true. ![]()
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