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The philosophy that pleasure is the point, and everything else is just bad scheduling.
means The belief that pleasure and the avoidance of pain are the highest goods worth pursuing in life.
from From the Greek hedone, meaning pleasure or delight — the same root that flavors hedonist and anhedonia (its joyless opposite).
Ancient brandEpicurus preached pleasure, but mostly meant calm and friendship.
The paradoxChasing pleasure directly often makes it flee faster.
Cyrenaic originsAristippus argued bodily pleasure now beats abstract good later.