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The ethical theory that pleasure or happiness
is, or should be, the main goal in life.
Hedonist sects in ancient Greece were the
Cyrenaics, who held that the pleasure of the
moment is the only human good, and the
Epicureans, who advocated the pursuit of
pleasure under the direction of reason.
Modern hedonistic philosophies, such as those
of the British philosophers Jeremy Bentham
and J S Mill, regard the happiness of
society, rather than that of the individual,
as the aim.