Some weird analysis has led me to the conclusion that the natural opposite of hedonism is nostalgia. Wonder if anyone else has reached this conclusion via other arguments.
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Does this mean that to fight nostalgia you should like your present self more?
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I don't know. The idea does not have much to say about that question.
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present, embodied flood of experience vs. historic cognitive remnant of event?
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I think Its nostalgia that people are actually referring to when they talk about returning to a “child like state of curiosity and wonder”.
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If we're thinking temporally, I can see the hedonism / nostalgia split: "living in the moment" vs "living in the past". But if consciousness itself is the metric, then hedonism = nostalgia: indulgence for a solipsistic purpose.
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A wise and eternally-curious old Ukrainian woman I know said to me: "I have always found hedonism boring.I never understood what the hippies were doing." She said this after watching the movie "Spring Breakers" (!) at the cinema by herself.
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Portuguese have a word “saudade” which means something like nostalgia for things that never were. Some puritans And ascetics live by it
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Opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference (george bernard shaw)
Opposite of pursuit of pleasure is indifference to future pleasures and pains. Leads to nostalgia as we have a tendency to form meaning in someway
What is your analysis?
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