Aristippus
435?–356? b.c., Greek philosopher: founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.
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Aristippus, the founder of the Cyreniac school, was a sort of philosophic voluptuary, teaching that pleasure is the end of life.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordPlato mentions no names: but he means (according to some commentators) Leukippus and Demokritus — perhaps Aristippus also.
Plato therefore had no good foundation for the sarcasm which he throws out against Aristippus.
Possibly Aristippus may have been the author of it: but we can hardly tell what he meant, or how he defended it.
The word γένεσις is also very obscure: and we are not sure that Aristippus employed it.
British Dictionary definitions for Aristippus
/ (ˌærɪˈstɪpəs) /
?435–?356 bc, Greek philosopher, who believed pleasure to be the highest good and founded the Cyrenaic school
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