[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hedonism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

hedonism (OED 1856)

1827 Thomas Campbell _Letters to the Students of Glasgow on the Epochs of Literature_ 48 (Google Books)

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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