- 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...
-
students Antisthenes, Aristippus, and
Plato went on to
found Cynicism,
Cyrenaicism, and Platonism, respectively.
Plato taught Aristotle who
created the...
-
Hegesias (Ancient Gr****: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BC) of
Cyrene was a
Cyrenaic philosopher. He
argued that
eudaimonia (happiness) is
impossible to achieve, and...
- Greco-Roman
Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school ****enistic...
- very
different from
hedonism as
colloquially understood.
Following the
Cyrenaic philosopher Aristippus,
Epicurus believed that the
greatest good was to...
- 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...
-
These two
meanings do not
necessarily coincide. For example,
Epicurean and
Cyrenaic philosophers claimed that the 'good life'
consistently aimed for pleasure...
- 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...
-
leaving Athens and
returning to his home city of Cyrene, he
founded the
Cyrenaic philosophical school which was
based on hedonism, and
endorsing living...
