Christian hedonism information

Christian hedonism is a Christian doctrine believed by some evangelicals. The term was coined by John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God based on Vernard...

Hedonism refers to the prioritization of pleasure in one's lifestyle, actions, or thoughts. The term can include a number of theories or practices across...

The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, refers to the practical difficulties encountered in the pursuit of pleasure. For the hedonist...

plays a central role in the family of philosophical theories known as hedonism. "Pleasure" refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment...

as libertinism or libertinage and are described as an extreme form of hedonism. Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced...

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indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain. For Hegesias, Cyrenaic hedonism was simply the least irrational strategy for dealing with the pains of...

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prosperity. His view that pleasure is the only good came to be called ethical hedonism. Due to the ideological and philosophical differences between Socrates...

Platonism, and its main opponent later became Stoicism. It is a form of hedonism insofar as it declares pleasure to be its sole intrinsic goal. However...

(on western antiquity), II. Le Christianisme hédoniste (2006) (on Christian hedonism from the Renaissance period), III. Les libertins baroques (2007) (on...

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part of the body and that life should be lived so as to produce pleasure (hedonism). His views were so controversial that he had to flee France and settle...

especially in the Epicurean school. It is also the root of the English word "hedonism". In Greek mythology, Hedone is personified as a goddess of pleasure, enjoyment...

unwelcome consequences of ephemeral pleasures. Epicureanism's version of Hedonism, as an ethical theory, claims that good and bad consist ultimately in pleasure...

The Sarvasiddhanta Samgraha states the Charvaka position on pleasure and hedonism as follows, The enjoyment of heaven lies in eating delicious food, keeping...

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804745208. Dupont, Christian Y.; Onuf, Peter S., eds. (2008). Declaring Independence: The Origin and...

self-cultivation. Individual pleasure is considered desirable, like in hedonism, but not at the expense of the health of individual. The Yangists saw individual...

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on Piper's book Desiring God, where Piper explains his concept of Christian hedonism. Hill Perry states that Aside from the doctrines of grace, it's one...

most is that before death strikes one lives life to the fullest." Egoism Hedonism Yangism Stefon. Shun 2000, pp. 40–41. Emerson 1996. Liu 1967, p. 358. Durant...

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"Philip Schaff: History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-600 - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". ccel...

Christians to include similar religious traditions stretching far into prehistory. Paganism came to be equated by Christians with a sense of hedonism...

openly reject ascetic practices and either focus on various types of hedonism or on the importance of family life, both rejecting celibacy.[citation...

authority of Cicero, Laërtius, Pseudo-Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, and some Christian writers; while some others (e.g. Clement of Alexandria) speak of him as...