Examples Of Epicurus's Hedonism

Epicurus, as a Hedonist, believed that happiness was the highest good. However, what distinguished his own hedonist view was his view that happiness was the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. Arguing that pleasure is the highest good, and therefore all activities are only good because of the pleasure that arises or the pleasure it can bring upon an individual in the future. Although, Epicurus did not believe in pleasure without reason. In other words, Epicurus’s utilized a form of sophisticated inquiry to discover things that will result in the highest pleasure, a sort of quality over quantity. Nevertheless, Epicurus’s hedonism differed in his view that pleasure was the absence of pain. Furthermore, we are provided explanations for his views, for example, pleasure is the result of the satisfaction of a desire and pain from its frustration. As a result, there’s the argument that the desire need be satisfied to avoid pain or the complete elimination of the desire itself and thus without the desired one is unable to feel pain from the frustration. …show more content…
The latter two are difficult to satisfy because of the lack of natural limitations. There is always more luxurious houses or food, for example. As a society, we all know too well that greed has no limitations. Considering this, Epicurus argues that by eliminating the latter two, we can eventually eliminate the pain associated with the frustration of not obtaining those