Having effected this reduction and mutilation, the hedonists naturally do not succeed in seeing anything else in any activity but pleasure and pain.
We have shown the embarrassment in which the hedonists find themselves, when they have dubbed all the senses "aesthetic," or have been obliged to differentiate in an absurd manner some of the senses from the others.
There are a few hedonists standing out from the general trend of opinion.
But, while this presumption stands ever in the background, and helps to many important conclusions, as in the case under discussion, few modern hedonists would question the statement in the text.
I have stated the reasons owing to which economics cannot dwell where the psychologists and hedonists say; now Graziedei has questioned the door-keepers (Fechner, Wundt, etc.
But, for my part, and I follow the hedonists in this; I deny entirely that the relation of value is a relation of equivalence.
Just as the hedonists regard a special act as a mere means to happiness, so Kant makes the concrete act a mere means to virtue.
They display all the cunning of dishonest sophistry in their arguments to prove that the element of subjective satisfaction which moral action yields is non-existent, and that, therefore, the Hedonists and Eudaemonists are wrong.
But if we look into the matter more closely we find that to draw a sharp distinction between the Hedonists and Eudaemonists is more than a little arbitrary.
It is perhaps too much to hope that the long-continued controversy betweenhedonists and anti-hedonists has been finally settled.
But the controversy between hedonists and anti-hedonists originates as soon as men reflect that a good which is not in some sense "my" good is not good at all, or that no act can be said to be moral which does not satisfy "me.
Whether the Hedonists in this respect would have the advantage 26 34.
Side-note: Arguments of Plato against the intense pleasures--The Hedonists enforced the same reasonable view.
Side-note: The Hedonists did not recognise this distinction--They included both in their acknowledged End.
Opponents of the Hedonists took advantage of the unfavourable associations attached to the word in these narrower and special senses, to make objections tell against the theory which employed the word in its widest generic sense.
There was a good deal of noise during the concluding sentences of his speech, but the so-called Hedonistswere so astonished that they did nothing, and Thornton very prudently did not wait to see what would happen next.
I suppose that his business was to explain why the Hedonists existed.
In a week the Hedonists were almost forgotten, and when the storm had blown over, Murray was not so anxious that I should have all the credit of having caused it.
He finished up by saying that Thornton would give his inaugural address, and that afterwards the historic ceremonies of the Hedonists would be performed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hedonists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
