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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2015]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zvf04 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cyrene and Cyrenaics
- Knowledge and pleasure
- Virtue and living pleasantly
- Eudaimonism and anti-Eudaimonism
- Personal and political relationships
- Hegesia's pessimism
- Theodorus's innovations
- The "new Cyrenaicism" of Walter Pater
- Conclusion: the birth of hedonism.