Aristippus

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Aristippus (ărĭstĭp`əs), c.435–c.360 B.C., Greek philosopher of Cyrene, first of the Cyrenaics Cyrenaics , one of the minor schools of Greek philosophy, flourishing in the late 4th and early 3d cent. B.C. Cyrenaic philosophy taught that present individual pleasure is the highest good.
..... Click the link for more information. . He held pleasure to be the highest good and virtue to be identical with the ability to enjoy. His doctrines, comprising the first coherent exposition of hedonism hedonism [Gr.,=pleasure], the doctrine that holds that pleasure is the highest good. Ancient hedonism expressed itself in two ways: the cruder form was that proposed by Aristippus and the early Cyrenaics, who believed that pleasure was achieved by the complete
..... Click the link for more information. , opposed those of the Cynics, although both groups drew upon aspects of Socratic philosophy.

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