Talk:Hedonism

Changes to the article

I'm thinking about implementing changes to this article with the hope of moving it in the direction of GA status. It currently has six unreferenced paragraphs and one maintenance tag "Over-quotation".

I believe the sections "History" and "Contemporary approaches" need some work. Besides the issue of unreferenced paragraphs, they currently lack information on various important theorists and critics, such as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Sidgwick, Moore, and Nozick. It might also be worth mentioning Butler, Freud, Parfit, Singer, Feldman, and possibly Yang Zhu to include Chinese philosophy. At the same time, these sections go into too much detail on certain topics. For example, overview sources on hedonism, like [1], [2], and [3], typically don't mention Michel Onfray, David Pearce, and Victor Argonov, so dedicating a full subsection to each of them violates WP:PROPORTION. There is probably also excessive information on the Cyrenaics, like a full paragraph on Cyrenaic epistemology, which is not particularly relevant here. I think these sections need to be rewritten to better align with WP:SUMMARYSTYLE: they should be comprehensive by mentioning all the main positions but only give a concise characterization of each, leaving the details to child articles. It would probably be best to have a single section covering everything from ancient to contemporary instead of splitting the contemporary part into a separate main section.

Various smaller adjustments are needed but they can be addressed later since the ones mentioned so far will already involve a lot of work to implement. I was hoping to get some feedback on these ideas and possibly other suggestions. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:34, 13 October 2024 (UTC)