Jiang uses a hedonistic reductio to argue that a life organized only around temporary earthly pleasure cannot answer the moral question of what should restrain action.
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Hedonism
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"Yeah. Why not? You know? Like, because you can't, as you say, you can't get drunk and throw up, up there. So do it..."
"...the material. The Americans are the Antichrist. The Americans support individual hedonism. Whereas we Russians, we believe in humanity. We believe in goodness. We..."
"...really modernity itself. The cult of the individual, which celebrates materialism, hedonism, pleasure, multiculturalism. Okay. So the church needs to destroy all three forces..."
"...liberalism. Liberalism is the cult of the individual, the belief in hedonism, the belief that the pursuit of individual pleasure is what matters most..."
"...it will show that Greek culture is one of corruption and hedonism and it must be repelled okay so you can make the argument..."
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