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Definition of Cyrenaic

Cyrenaic
Cyrenaic Cyr`e*na"ic (s?r`?-n?"?k or s?`r?-), a. [L. Cyrenaicus, fr. Cyrene, in Libya.] Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. -- n. A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.

Meaning of Cyrenaic from wikipedia

- The Cyrenaics or Kyrenaics (Ancient Gr****: Κυρηναϊκοί, romanized: Kyrēnaïkoí), were a sensual hedonist Gr**** school of philosophy founded in the 4th century...
- on the streets of Athens. The Cyrenaics were founded by Aristippus of Cyrene, who was a pupil of Socrates. The Cyrenaics were hedonists and held that pleasure...
- c. 356 BCE) was a hedonistic Gr**** philosopher and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a different...
- Greco-Roman Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school ****enistic...
- students Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Plato went on to found Cynicism, Cyrenaicism, and Platonism, respectively. Plato taught Aristotle who created the...
- Two others were long-lasting: Cynicism, founded by Antisthenes, and Cyrenaicism, founded by Aristippus. The Cynics considered life's purpose to live...
- These two meanings do not necessarily coincide. For example, Epicurean and Cyrenaic philosophers claimed that the 'good life' consistently aimed for pleasure...
- Cyrenaica. The area was home to the renowned philosophy school of the Cyrenaics. In 525 BC the Persian army of Cambyses II overran Cyrenaica, which for...
- leaving Athens and returning to his home city of Cyrene, he founded the Cyrenaic philosophical school which was based on hedonism, and endorsing living...
- The Cyrenaic and Carthaginian coins of Corvo are a ****d of coins dating to approximately 200 BCE that were supposedly left in the Azores by Carthaginians...