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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- Gorgias of Leontini· 483 BCE–376 BCE
- Philolaus of Croton· 470 BCE–385 BCE
- Socrates· 470 BCE–399 BCE
- Prodicus· 465 BCE–395 BCE
- Hippocrates· 460 BCE–370 BCE
- Democritus· 460 BCE–370 BCE
- Thucydides· 460 BCE–400 BCE
- Critias· 460 BCE–403 BCE
- Antisthenes· 446 BCE–366 BCE
- Aristophanes· 446 BCE–386 BCE
- Lysias· 445 BCE–380 BCE
- Andocides· 440 BCE–390 BCE
- Isocrates· 436 BCE–338 BCE
- Alcidamas· 435 BCE–360 BCE
- Archytas of Tarentum· 435 BCE–347 BCE
- Xenophon· 430 BCE–354 BCE
- Isaeus· 420 BCE–340 BCE
- Diogenes of Sinope· 412 BCE–323 BCE
- Speusippus· 408 BCE–338 BCE
- Apollodorus son of Pasion· 394 BCE–
- Eudoxus of Cnidus· 390 BCE–337 BCE
- Lycurgus· 390 BCE–324 BCE
- Hyperides· 390 BCE–322 BCE
- Philip II of Macedon· 382 BCE–336 BCE
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