The birth of Hedonism : the Cyrenaic philosophers and pleasure as a way of life /
According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in anc...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2015]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zvf04 |
| Summary: | According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the Cyrenaics pursued a way of life in which moments of pleasure, particularly bodily pleasure, held the highest value. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400852499 1400852498 0691161135 9780691161136 |