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being part of a decent community, the polis.
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But the modern world, to get back to that,
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to this Enlightenment world,
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individualism and a key aspect to that is hedonism.
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That is to say,
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it is legitimate and proper to search for pleasure,
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for each individual to attempt to please himself however he can.
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And it turns out that if you could take it to our own day,
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there are no limits pretty much to what he can do to gain pleasure.
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I would argue that there is a direct line
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from the Enlightenment philosophy to nihilism,
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that is to say a philosophy that says