Hedonism

The philosophical view that pleasure is the highest good and the proper aim of human life. In its classical form (associated with Epicurus), hedonism emphasises the cultivation of refined, lasting pleasures over crude immediate gratification; in modern utilitarianism it survives as the assumption that aggregate pleasure and pain are the right currency of moral evaluation. In contemporary usage it more often refers loosely to a lifestyle organised around sensory enjoyment — food, drink, comfort, sex — and to the recurring literary question of whether such a life can sustain meaning, or whether it eventually empties out the person living it. Houellebecq's protagonists are the canonical late-modern test case.

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