Reading this vituperator rant about hedonism in the UK in this week's New Yorker, I see that perhaps he isn't too far off base. |
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You seem to have found a balance between absolute asceticism and utter hedonism. |
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It's not so much that I've quietened down, as that I've channelled my energies into things that are more productive than out-and-out hedonism. |
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Eventually we all fell asleep on the couch but I, fearing some moment of excessive hedonism, swiftly made an exit. |
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In fact hedonism, the view that pleasure is our ethical end, is always on the defensive in ancient ethics. |
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Although hedonism fails as a theory that gives us a fixed end, it does contain a methodological insight. |
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They viewed the world as a great machine, adopted hedonism as their ethics, and interpreted history from a subjective-critical point of view. |
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So utilitarianism, despite its traditional ties to welfare hedonism, is compatible with any of the four accounts of utility. |
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He displays a hedonism and love of the good life that mirrors the promiscuous and hellraising lifestyle Liam had. |
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Other people might get that hedonism via a drunken night out, watching a movie, sport, whatever. |
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While I could understand that perhaps he was a bit of a motormouth, there was also something touching in Voyo's innocent joy in his own hedonism. |
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The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. |
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We have entered an age of trashy, casual hedonism in which mild decadence is all the rage. |
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Surely their fate carries with it lurid tales of hedonism and excessive violence? |
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Such it was for the thirtysomethings, born just too late for the anger of punk and too early for the full-blown hedonism of rave. |
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It is a novel about tension between duty and responsibility on the one hand and hedonism and indulgence on the other. |
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Call me a wowser if you must, but I can't see that this is a desirable form of hedonism. |
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The whole point of a sports car is hedonism, the selfish pursuit of pleasure. |
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In the twentieth century, most of those sympathetic to utilitarianism replaced hedonism with the desire-fulfilment theory. |
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If the plan works, there will be no images of Hooray Henries, outlandish hedonism or general drunkenness in the tabloids on Friday morning. |
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This year's race on 2 November will be a day of hedonism and hats, of fashion shows and celebrities. |
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It's a glimpse into the golden age of kings, a lost world of luxury, political scheming, extravagance, and hedonism. |
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One of the most pernicious evils of contemporary BritKapital is to have lured the proletariat into limiting their potential to the pursuit of lumpen hedonism. |
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He's blasted the Blairite champagne socialists and denounced dog owners, tattooed goths, and the Presbyterians who believe Lutheranism is a form of crazed hedonism. |
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And surely big shots like these, with their haughtiness and hedonism, have it coming. |
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His life of hedonism suddenly seems empty when he begins to fall in love with Grace. |
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They talk about it not as a priceless entitlement but a peril, out-of-control hedonism and lasciviousness – as a sin. |
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On the face of it, hedonism is committed to the hedonic equality and thus the equal value of these lives. |
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Some scholars have even argued that an Epicurean egoistic hedonism, however foresighted it may be, must logically be self-defeating. |
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The West, especially, is increasingly driven by a culture of materialism, hedonism and self-gratification which leaves no room for God. |
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This period may have been an element of what attracted him to Babette's Feast – the contrast between French hedonism and Danish stoicism. |
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Along the way he became king of the lads: a poster boy for hedonism but with traces of street poet. |
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It looks dated now, but in the mid-60s it brilliantly captured the hedonism of the period and aspects of London life. |
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The brash, flash-the-cash hedonism of the early post-Soviet years has given way to a new, more mature eating-and-drinking scene. |
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To capture the images the riders have to contain themselves and exchange pure hedonism for the pursuit professionalism. |
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The capital was invaded by new clubs, bars and jazz music and the young generation threw themselves into non-stop partying and hedonism. |
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What's more, his bubbly brand of hedonism is a breath of fresh air in these gloom-laden days of economic woes. |
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Because divorce reduces the attractiveness of marriage for young persons and encourages hedonism, there is a corresponding shift in the economy. |
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It sought to oppose hedonism with introspection and subjectivity and had a marked disdain for theatrical music. |
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The question is: How can I combine abstention and hedonism in a pleasurable way? |
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There is no right to expression of or cultivation of irrationalist hedonism in a constitutional republic. |
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I guess they figure, as the recent blackout demonstrated, that the only thing separating humanity from unbridled, rampant hedonism is the electricity grid. |
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He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness. |
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Those avatars of hedonism, The Europeans, are aghast at discovering that the average American vacation lasts for just 4.1 days. |
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Most of Britain's best pop music has taken this sort of anti-institutional stance, from early John Lennon through punk to the anti-Thatcherite hedonism of acid house. |
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There is nothing more alluring at the moment than painting materialistic hedonism with a countercultural stripe. |
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There is more than a hint of hedonism, indeed a new libertinism. |
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Even Roger Sterling is beginning to see a bit of darkness in the repetitive nature of hedonism. |
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Instead, they were moments that struck me as evidence that the vestiges of basic human civility could remain, despite the all-encompassing hedonism and mechanism. |
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And predictably, there have been warnings that the new hedonism itself might be a touch too hedonistic, posing a potential risk to people's health and wellbeing. |
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Let's remember her romance, her image, her hedonism, her families. |
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Traditional songs about love of God, nation, and family are now being pushed to the wayside in the world of country, as new tunes championing hedonism take center stage. |
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There is a critique of hedonism, or the pursuit of pleasure. |
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Rochester's interest was in inversion, disruption, and the superiority of wit as much as it was in hedonism. |
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Today, this vocation is being hard tested by the worrying degradation of certain fundamental values and the exaltation of hedonism and a false conception of liberty. |
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The evangelical view will allow young people to take an critical attitude towards consumerism and hedonism that have wormed their way, like the tare in the wheat, into the culture and way of life of vast areas of humanity. |
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Its one dream seemed to be comfort and peace. Suddenly the shock of the brutal terrorist attacks in New York profoundly shook its confidence and its hedonism. |
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In such a context hedonism and egotism advance more and more. |
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Certainly it will involve changing our exaggerated consumerist behaviour, combatting hedonism, resisting attitudes of indifference and the tendency to disregard our personal responsibilities. |
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They value family, community, and hedonism. |
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It is thus distinct from axiological or normative hedonism, the view that only pleasure has intrinsic value, and from ethical hedonism, the view that pleasure-producing actions are morally right. |
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To this we may add other life-diminishing forces like consumerism, hedonism and relativism, the negative influence of the media and the fragmentation of family life. |
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Fredrickson believed that hedonism would prove more favorable than eudaemonia — that discrete feelings of happiness would register on the genome more powerfully than abstract notions of meaning and purpose. |
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Although churches promote Christmas as a time of spiritual transcendence and commerce as an opportunity for domestic hedonism, it can be three days of dark and painful farce for many people. |
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Their struggle with each other is that of their opposing traits: sophistication and naivete, moderation and hedonism, circumspection and carelessness. |
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The West Eugene club will mark the end of pre-Lenten hedonism with a party hosted by the Freemartins, Genus Pro and Papa's Soul Kitchen. |
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The insane person is one who has disassociated his or her consciousness from significant aspects of rationally ordered reality in order to assert in practice the impulses of an infantile irrational hedonism. |
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Traveling from town to town, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism that wins an enthusiastic response from men and women alike. |
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This form of psychological hedonism helpfully allows that some hedonic motivations of ours fail to determine our action, and that some of our hedonically determined actions fail actually to get us pleasure. |
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But the pleasures of vengeance and hedonism prove a dead end for Wanda. |
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He was one of Europe's best-known playboys, enlivening post-war society with his pursuit of beautiful women, fast machines and spontaneous hedonism. |
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The eclectic mix will lighten the mood of those party animals already missing summers of musical hedonism. |
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In Brave New World you find the pointless hedonism of our binge-drinking young professionals in the city centres and the uncouth savagery of housing-estate charvers. |
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Coversion presents Mixdown at the Campbell, a night of pure techno heaven, while The Lighthouse has launched a new night of Sunday hedonism with ex Foundry DJ Paul Morrell. |
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As Gray's portrait allows him to escape the corporeal ravages of his hedonism, Wilde sought to juxtapose the beauty he saw in art with daily life. |
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