Aristippus
Americannoun
noun
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In prose so immaculately manicured that only the polish is apparent, Santayana descends to the oblivion of limbo and seeks out his beloved, smooth-talking heroes: Socrates, Democritus, Alcibiades, Dionysius, Aristippus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Antisthenes founded the Cynic school, Aristippus the Cyrenaic, and Euclid the Megaric.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
The followers of the Cyrenaic school, with its doctrine of moderation in the pursuit of pleasure, maintained that they carried out the maxims of Aristippus in their pursuit of the joys of love.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
Aristippus combined this with his doctrine of pleasure.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
Like Aristippus, they founded morality upon pleasure, but they differ because they developed a purer and nobler conception of pleasure than the Cyrenaics had known.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
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