Aristippus
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Philosophy
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: African History, Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Area of Achievement: Philosophy Greek philosopher{$I[g]Greece;Aristippus} Departing from the Sophism to which he was exposed as Socrates’ student, Aristippus founded the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, the hallmark of which was hedonism.
Early Life
Because Aristippus (ar-uh-STIHP-uhs) left no writings for posterity, what is known about him is derived from secondary sources, the most notable of which is Xenophon’s Apomnēmoneumata (c. 381-355; Memorabilia of Socrates, 1712). From these scant and distant sources, it...
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