In every language, ther term hedonism denotes an amoral tendency to a life of sensusuality, if noy of outright vice. This is inaccurate, of course: Epicurus, the first great theoretician of pleasure, had a highly sceptical understanding of the happy life: pleasure es the absesce of suffering.
Suffering, then, is the fundamental notion of hedonim: one is happy to the degree that one can avoid suffering, and since pleasures often bring more unhappiness than happiness, Epicurus recommends only such pleasures as are prudent and modest.
Modest or not, pleasures belong only to the person who experoences them,and philosopher could justifiably criticize hedonims for its grounding in the self......

Milan kundera: slowness