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Aristippus of Cyrene (; ; c. 435 – c. 356 BCE) was the founder of the Cyrenaic school of Philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a very different philosophical outlook, teaching that the goal of life was to seek pleasure by adapting circumstances to oneself and by maintaining proper control over both adversity and prosperity. Among his pupils was his daughter Arete.
There are indications that he was conflated with his grandson, Aristippus the Younger.
Aristippus may refer to:
- Aristippus (lived c. 400 BC), founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy
- Aristippus the Younger (lived c. 325 BC), grandson of Aristippus, and also a Cyrenaic philosopher
- Aristippus of Argos (died 235 BC), tyrant of Argos
- Henry Aristippus (died 1162), medieval Sicilian translator, scholar, and courtier
Usage examples of "aristippus".
He developed the pleasure ethic of Aristippus and combined it with the atom theory of Democritus.
Greek school of philosophy founded by Aristippus of Cyrene, who considered individual sensual pleasure the greatest good.
Carisophus, the disappointed courtier, who endeavours to creep back to favour by double-dealing with Aristippus and by practising the base treachery of a common informer, and who finally is kicked out of court and off the stage by Eubulus, the good counsellor.
Did they not remember the story of Aristippus who, on being shipwrecked on Rhodes, realised that the inhabitants were civilised men when he saw a mathematical figure drawn in the sand?
This, indeed, was more explicitly the doctrine of Aristippus , the father of the Cyrenaics, a sect, however, which sunk into the Epicureans, whose notions plainly led to the dissoluteness so remarkable in the lives of most of them.