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The Cyrenaic school of philosophy (named after its founder Aristippus' native city of Cyrene in North Africa) flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE a

According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard

The Cyrenaics were a Hellenistic Greek philosophical school of the fourth century BC, related both to the Socratic tradition and to Greek skepticism. There are

How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?

An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.