Hedonism (for reals though)

I wanted to do some serious reading on this vacation to go with the fluffy stuff, and chose A Hedonist Manifesto by Michel Onfray because I realized how little I knew about hedonism as a real philosophical system. (People use the slang term all the time, but usually in a derogatory way. If you want to know how far off it is, think about the word "cynical" as generally used, and contrast with the original idea of living a life of virtue in agreement with nature, with just the basics).

Onfray is a serious, active, and famous-in-France philosopher who goes over a lot of the history of hedonist philosophical thought (and philosophers) before getting into his ideas on what constitutes morality. The book is also translated, which made it tough going ( and this post might be, too, so click only if interested, but  )

I'm glad I did the above bit of reading and had time to chew on it sufficiently.