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Aristippus the Elder (c.435–c.355 BC)

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10.4324/9780415249126-A019-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A019-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
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Aristippus of Cyrene was a member of Socrates’ entourage who after Socrates’ death (399 bc) founded the Cyrenaic school. He was primarily interested in practical ethics. He focused on the concepts of pleasure and pain, and classed them as bodily motions of which we are conscious. He considered pleasure a major component of happiness, but also attributed intrinsic value to virtue and emphasized the importance of study and exercise as means to self-control.

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Tsouna, Voula. Aristippus the Elder (c.435–c.355 BC), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A019-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/aristippus-the-elder-c-435-c-355-bc/v-1.
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