Hedonist Değer Anlayışının Eleştirisi
Criticism of Hedonistic Values

Summary/Abstract: The distinction between intrinsic value and instrumental value is one of the important distinctions in axiology. According to this distinction while somethings are valuable by themselves, regardless of their extrinsic relationships, somethings are valuable only by their relationship to something having intrinsic value. When we follow this distinction we meet some basic questions. One of these is the question of “Which things have intrinsic value?” Hedonism answers this question by asserting that only pleasure is intrinsically valuable and other things have only instrumental value in terms of their relation to pleasure. But is this basic thesis of hedonism sufficiently justified? Are there sound or cogent arguments for hedonism? Are there sound or cogent arguments against hedonism? In this work we tried to find answers to these questions. Specificially we tried to demonstrate that common arguments for hedonism are not strong by showing generally that their premises are not sufficiently justified. Moreover, we have presented the arguments against hedonism which point that its some versions are incoherent or its basic thesis is untenable. So, we have tried to argue that hedonism is untenable by the reasons that there is no strong argument for hedonism and there are strong arguments against it.

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