Hedonism

Hedonism was early founded in the 4th century b.c in the school of Cyrenaics which was an early Socratic school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene. At that school they believed that happiness is one of the end of moral action, while denying that virtue has any intrinsic value at all. Aristippus considered physical pleasure “more intense and preferable to mental or intellectual pleasures”, and especially immediate gratification, which he argued “should not be denied for the sake of long-term gain”. When the middle ages came around, the Christians found Hedonism very wrong and evil and banned it completely. Erasmus and Sir Thomas More were the only two Christians that would partly save humanism by pushing others to believe that Hedonism was like Christianity in the way that God wants people to be happy. This created a new group of Hedonism called, Christian Hedonism. Christian Hedonists’ believed “humans were created by God with the priority purpose of lavishly enjoying God through knowing, worshiping and serving Him”. Hedonism is big still in Greece and other countries close to it. But Hedonism has been slowly diminishing for the sake of not a lot of people push others to believe it. There are two main kinds of hedonism, Psychological Hedonism and Ethical Hedonism. Psychological Hedonism is specifically a hedonist about taking action and being determined. In simple terms this kind of Hedonism says that you will feel more pleasure when you work to accomplish something. It also come from the fact how we are all motivated by pleasure. Lastly a truth of everyday meaning that the words ‘is motivated’ just signify the ‘aims for the greatest balance of pleasure over pain’. Now ethical hedonism is the thesis that all and only pleasure has “positive non-instrumental importance” and all and only pain has “negative non-instrumental importance”. Ethical hedonism is similar in the fact that you should go get your pleasure. The difference is though, that ethical hedonists’