[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hedonism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

hedonism (OED 1856)

1828 _New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal_ Jan. 283 (ProQuest)

Plato interwove his theism with dreams; and Aristippus, adhering indeed, to the cheerfulness of Socrates, and to his preference of practical to speculative philosophy, nevertheless got up his pleasant system of Hedonism without consulting his Athenian master.

Fred Shapiro

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