Those whose legacy can lay claim to have suffered are going to be much better off in the long run for having endured it or having succumbed to its ravages. — gloaming
But life is transitory, whereas 'our story', our legacy, or what is left of us after we did, — gloaming
We disagree just in terms: Hedonism is based on a desire,A triumph of desire over pleasure? Hardly. Hedonism is the force majeure of modern thinking, as I see it. Self indulgence is a pressure, to be sure, but it's mostly as an end-state t — gloaming
Don't you think that Socrates was using his thesis just as a pretext? Indeed, he was obsessed by the desire to win by any cost.I am going to side with Socrates — gloaming
Hedonism is based on a desire,
and self-indulgence is a pleasure. — Number2018
I replied to gloaming, who wrote:"Hedonism is generally understood as a philosophy that sets the pursuit of pleasure (understood in the sense of pleasures that are sensorily gratifying, ecstatic, etc.) as the primary ethical goal. — gurugeorge
".Hedonism is the force — gloaming
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