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 Translation for 'hedonism' from English to Portuguese
NOUN   hedonism | -
hedonismo {m}hedonism
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Translation for 'hedonism' from English to Portuguese

hedonism
hedonismo {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • Views on sexual desire and how it should be expressed vary significantly among societies and religions. Ideologies range from sexual repression to hedonism.
  • Hedonism refers to a family of theories, all of which have in common that pleasure plays a central role in them.
  • Lyrically, Lords of Acid maintain their trademark themes of sex, drugs and hedonism.
  • "Pleasure" plays a central role in theories from various areas of "philosophy". Such theories are usually grouped together under the label "hedonism".
  • Berghain has become associated with decadence and hedonism.

  • In "La puissance d'exister: Manifeste hédoniste", Onfray claims that the political dimension of hedonism runs from Epicurus to John Stuart Mill to Jeremy Bentham and Claude Adrien Helvétius.
  • One of the first influential figures to discuss the topic of hedonism was Socrates, and he did so around 470–399 BCE in ancient Greece.
  • Many commentaries were written about his work, including "David Baumgardt and ethical hedonism" by Zeev Levy and also "Aristotle Ethical views" by "Mehdi Shokri".
  • Bentham explicitly described what types and qualities of pain and pleasure exist, and how human motives are singularly explained using psychological hedonism.
  • Weber was a critic of Islam and hedonism. He argued that hedonism plays a role in Islamic ethics and teachings, in which worldly pleasures such as military interests and the "acquisition of booty" are emphasised.

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