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ARISTIPPUS (c. 435–356 B.c.)

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ARISTIPPUS (c. 435–356 B.c.) , See also:Greek philosopher, the founder of the Cyrenaic school, was the son of Aritadas, a See also:merchant of See also:Cyrene. At an See also:early See also:age he came to See also:Athens, and was induced to remain by the fame of See also:Socrates, whose See also:pupil he became. Subsequently he travelled through a number of Grecian cities, and finally settled in Cyrene, where he founded his school. His See also:philosophy was eminently See also:practical (see See also:CYRENAICS). Starting from the two Socratic principles of virtue and happiness, he emphasized the second, and made See also:pleasure the criterion of See also:life. That he held to be See also:good which gives the maximum of pleasure. In pursuance of this he indulged in all forms of See also:external luxury. At the same See also:time he remained thoroughly See also:master of himself and had the self-See also:control to refrain or to enjoy. See also:Diogenes Laertius (ii. 65), quoting See also:Phanias the peripatetic, says that he received See also:money for his teaching, and See also:Aristotle (Met. ii. 2) expressly calls him a sophist.

Diogenes further states that he wrote several See also:

treatises, but none have survived. The five letters attributed to him are undoubtedly See also:spurious. His daughter See also:Arete, and her son Aristippus (µrlrpoSiSarcros, " pupil of his See also:mother "), carried on the school after his See also:death. A See also:cosmopolitan on principle, and a convinced disbeliever in the See also:ethics of his See also:day, he comes very near to See also:modern See also:empiricism and especially to the modern Hedonist school.

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