Antedating of "Hedonism"

[Fred Shapiro]

hedonism (OED 1856)

1828 _The Albion_ 26 Apr. 362 ff. (American Periodical Series)  Aristippus
... got up his pleasant system of Hedonism without consulting his Athenian
master.

Fred Shapiro


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