The theory of relational hedonism draws upon Helm's theory of love and friendship. In line with Helm's view, to show concern for a particular aspect of a person's life is to show concern for them in a holistic sense. I adapt Helm's theory to explain the broad-based conception of ...
and 70% of total consumption.That’s quite a broad range, and like asset ownership, it is very disproportionate in numbers. You can clearly see the difference in spending patterns in the chart at right, showing the Merrill Lynch Lifestyle Index versus the Morgan Stanley Consumer Discretionary I...
“Why am I here?”Sometimes the question is phrased a bit differently by different people, “Why was I born?”, and sometimes, “What is the chief end of man?”Or, perhaps, “What is the meaning of life?”In general, it all has the same intent—to find out the grand purpose behin...
this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light...
That makes sense, but a more practical definition of hedonism would be maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. In other words figuring out how to get the most pleasure with the least necessary pain. That's how I try to live my life and when I'm successful I feel very happy. I don't...
Aristippus of Cyrene (435 BCE – 356 BCE) was the founder of the Cyrenaic school of Philosophy. The school was was located in the ancient Greco-Roman city of Cyrene; with the ruins of this ancient city lying in a lush valley in present day Libya. 'Aristippus was a pupil of Socrates...