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- noun a
unit ofpleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.
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Examples
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Deontologists are hedon and dolor haters, and argue that consequences are inconsequential in the moral realm.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Controversial Peter Singer 2007
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Tiap bulan saya hanya sodaqoh jariyah buat perusahaan hosting … Yak pada kesempatan kali ini, marilah kita berhedon-hedon ria.
Boku Baka Blog 2009
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Happiness is subjective, as it happens, and people do often say they are happy whilst self-destructing; the fact that the odd opium addict says he is happy doesn’t mean (a) he actually is, or (2) his short-term happiness is indicative of long-term hedon surplus.
sionnach commented on the word hedon
Philosophers talking about Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism sometimes use the conceptual unit of the Hedon to quantify pleasure, one hedon being equivalent to the amount of pleasure a person receives from gaining one util of utility.
July 28, 2008