Aristippus

[ ar-uh-stip-uhs ]

noun

1. 435?–356? b.c., Greek philosopher: founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.

Aristippus

/ ˌærɪˈstɪpəs /

noun

1. Aristippus?435 bc?356 bcMGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?435–?356 bc , Greek philosopher, who believed pleasure to be the highest good and founded the Cyrenaic school

Example Sentences

Aristippus, the founder of the Cyreniac school, was a sort of philosophic voluptuary, teaching that pleasure is the end of life.

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Plato mentions no names: but he means (according to some commentators) Leukippus and Demokritus — perhaps Aristippus also.

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Plato therefore had no good foundation for the sarcasm which he throws out against Aristippus.

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Possibly Aristippus may have been the author of it: but we can hardly tell what he meant, or how he defended it.

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The word γένεσις is also very obscure: and we are not sure that Aristippus employed it.

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