stackyFACTSWhile diverse ascetic traditions preached spiritual enlightenment, the Charvaka school in ancient India firmly insisted that only the physical world existed. They aggressively advocated for maximizing direct sensory enjoyment, essentially pioneering the earliest known scholarly justification for hedonism.
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