Hedonism is a philosophical belief that pleasure or the absence of pain is the most important principle in determining the morality of a potential course of action. It is a type of consequentialism, which means that it judges the moral correctness of an action by its consequences. Hedonism can be divided into several forms, including normative hedonism, which is the idea that pleasure should be peoples primary motivation, and motivational hedonism, which says that only pleasure and pain cause people to act. Philosophical hedonists tend to focus on hedonistic theories of value, and especially of well-being, which states that all and only pleasure is intrinsically valuable and all and only pain is intrinsically not valuable. Hedonism can be universalist, me-and-my-near-and-dear egocentric, or egoistically focused just on ones own pleasure.