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"The theory that all action aims at attaining pleasure for the agent. In a formulation of John Stuart Mill: all actions are determined by pleasure and pain in prospect, pains and pleasures to ; HOME; HedWeb; HerbWeb; Pure Pleasure?; BLTC Research; Wirehead Hedonism; Paradise-Engineering; Critique of Brave New World...
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Hedonism: what is it? Philosophers commonly distinguish between psychological hedonism and ethical hedonism. Psychological hedonism is the view that humans are psychologically constructed in such a way that we exclusively desire pleasure.
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Encyclopedia: Psychological egoism
Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by rational self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It can be contrasted both with ethical egoism, which is the view ...
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Hedonism can be conjoined with psychological egoism - the theory that humans are motivated only by their self interest - to make psychological hedonism: a...
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Oct 11, 2008 Psychological hedonism (PH) is the view that each person is motivated so as to maximise his or her pleasure and minimise his or her pain.
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Retrieved December 31, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/481648/psychological-hedonism
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Butler and Sober on Psychological Hedonism It may be useful to notice here that psychological hedonism is actually a variant of psychological egoism. The latter thesis is a more general one, asserting that all our actions aim in the end at our own interest, without saying precisely what it consists in.
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that is, Epicurus' ethical hedonism is based upon his psychological hedonism. Everything we do, claims Epicurus, we do for the sake ultimately of gaining pleasure for ourselves. This is supposedly confirmed by observing the behavior of infants, who, it is claimed, instinctively pursue pleasure and shun pain.
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Now, of course, I identify this belief as psychological egoism. Maybe, it could be argued, that my persistent denying of altruism and defending egoism was the outcome of my naivety, my infant ignorance of the deeper layers of the subject which can only be cognized through a scrupulous study of philosophy.
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Motivational hedonism is the claim that only pleasure or pain motivates us. It is the most significant form of psychological hedonism. Normative hedonism is the claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value, and all and only pain has disvalue.
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