MattMVS7
I have read all your posts in this forum including your other most recent one.
I am very glad to hear your goal is to overcome your depression and anhedonia so you can experience pleasure.
I believe that once you overcome those things you will discover that humans have evolved to experience pleasure in many ways. Satisfaction, contentment, inner peace, the respect of others, helping others, music, art, culture, reading, writing, close relationships, marriage, parenthood, and a wide host of things that would fall into the definition of hedonism.
If you define hedonism as limited to much baser instinctual things such as eating, sex, drugs etc. I think you will find that those are rather shallow and do not bring a ton of pleasure in and of themselves.
Doing drugs for example usually leads to much more misery than pleasure. A night of heavy drinking and sex brings much pleasure but the next day brings a bad hangover and feelings of shame. A week on a meth high brings 4 or 5 days of pure misery and come down. In the long run aside from hangovers, come downs and withdrawals they bring tons of misery because of the effects they have on your life.
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Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that pleasure is the primary or most important intrinsic good.[1] In very simple terms, a hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain).
Ethical hedonism is the idea that all people have the right to do everything in their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible to them, assuming that their actions do not infringe on the equal rights of others. It is also the idea that every person's pleasure should far surpass their amount of pain. Ethical hedonism is said to have been started by Aristippus of Cyrene, a student of Socrates. He held the idea that pleasure is the highest good.[2]
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If helping others brings you pleasure and adds to the greater good it could be considered hedonism.
Edit- by the way Hilter's reign of power lasted 12 years and in the end he committed suicide so I am not sure how seeking pleasure in that way worked out for him.