Sensualism
Sensualism is the persistent or excessive pursuit of sensual pleasures and interests.
In philosophy, sensualism refers to the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good. In epistemology it is a doctrine whereby sensations and perception are the basic and most important form of true cognition. It may oppose abstract ideas.
This ideogenetic question was long ago put forward in Greek philosophy and further developed to the full by the English Sensualists and the English Associationists. In the 19th century it was very much taken up by the PositivistsFootnotes
