Aristippus of Cyrene
c. 435 BCE–c. 356 BCE · Cyrene
Socratic who founded the Cyrenaic school of hedonism, making immediate bodily pleasure the good; a chief foil to later Epicurean hedonism.
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Cyrene was a Greek colony in Cyrenaica, in modern eastern Libya near Shahhat, founded by settlers from Thera in the seventh century BC. It was the birthplace of Aristippus, a follower of Socrates and founder of the hedonistic Cyrenaic school of philosophy, which took its name from the city.
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