Libertine

A libertine is a person questionning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits as unnecessary or undesirable. A libertine is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society.^[1]^[2] The values and practices of libertines are known collectively as libertinism or libertinage and are described as an extreme form of hedonism.^[3] Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain. Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade.

^ "libertine" – via The Free Dictionary.
^ "libertine" at WordNet
^ Feiner, Shmuel (June 6, 2011). The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812201895 – via Google Books.

[1] "libertine" – via The Free Dictionary.

[2] "libertine" at WordNet

[3] Feiner, Shmuel (June 6, 2011). The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812201895 – via Google Books.

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