So, a lover’s caress gives me pleasure, but so can a piece of music, laughing with friends, or simply sitting still in a comfy chair after a frantic day. This is a broad perspective, but one easily applied to our everyday lives. It might help to think of pleasure simply as a subjective state of enjoyment. This is largely due to some highly nuanced philosophical arguments about how we should conceptualise pleasure. Today there are multiple views on what hedonism is. Hedonism has its philosophical roots as far back as Plato and Socrates, but ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is often credited with articulating an early brand of hedonism based not on a life of untamed appetites, but on moderate pleasures and respect for others. We wait for their liver to rebel or their life to come crashing down around them, as of course it must.īut this kind of behaviour is better termed debauchery – extreme indulgence in bodily pleasures and especially sexual pleasures – rather than hedonism. They indulge their carnal appetites in ways we daren’t, with scant regard for consequences. We find these characters so compelling because they seem to reject the sensible, responsible way to live. Futurama’s Hedonism Bot knows what gives him pleasure, and it’s not always the usual suspects.
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