Hedonists generally identify happiness with pleasure.
Hedonists generally identify happiness with pleasure.
This identification seems wrong. Being happy is not the same as having pleasure.
You might have lots of pleasures but be quite unhappy -- since you see your life of pleasure as ultimately meaningless. Or you might have few pleasures but be happy -- since you see your life as meaningful in some deeper way.
Happiness is better defined as overall contentment with our life. So it's a kind of contentment, but deeper than pleasure.
Hedonists generally identify happiness with pleasure.
They do generally identify the two.