According to Arristeipos, the aim of life is seeking pleasures in every way... Sometimes though we find ourselves face to face with the possibility of tasting more than one of them.
When one of the pleasures that we have the ability to taste excludes another, we are forced to choose only one of them, leaving the others...
Arristeipos suggested that we should choose our pleasures based on two creterions.
1) Timing
2) Intensity
About the timing criterion, Arristeipos believes that the familiar place for the pleasures to take place is present. And that's why,past that has passed, and future,that hasn't even arrived yet,are inexistent. So whatever falls into them is nothing more than futile desire(s). Pursuits that take place in the future and memories that refer to the past are vanities. It's worth pursuing just pleasures that fall into present,those that are immediate to us. And if it happens, not having the ability of tasting directly a pleasure, then we should choose those that we are able to taste in the immediate future.
The other criterion of our choice should be intensity. Between the pleasures we're able to taste'live, we shall choose the one that offers greatest tension,the one we believe we'll enjoy the most. So as long as the pleasures of the flesh are stronger,we shall choose them,instead of mental delights...
Progressively,the theory of the endmost version of hedonism faded and degenerated,until Egesios showed up with whom the cyrcle of its apologists closed. Egesias said that the most positive element in a pesron's life is pain and not delight. He reached the conclusion that we shall pursue pain and not run away from it.
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