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Aristippus of Cyrene
Aristippus
also: Aristippus, Aristippe
Greek philosopher (c. 435-356 BC), pupil of Socrates and founder of the Cyrenaic (hedonist) school. In Fam. 9.26 Cicero cites his unembarrassed retort about the courtesan Lais ('I have her, I am not had by her').
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 9.26 §2 not even the famous Aristippus, the Socratic, blushed when it was thrown at him that he had Lais
Aristippus of Cyrene, a pupil of Socrates and founder of the hedonist Cyrenaic school, was the lover of the celebrated Corinthian courtesan Lais. His retort -- 'I have her, I am not had by her' -- claims that the philosopher masters pleasure rather than being mastered by it, and Cicero borrows it to defend his own unembarrassed enjoyment of the party.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.18 the pleasure that Aristippus defended
Aristippus of Cyrene (c. 435-356 BC), pupil of Socrates and founder of the Cyrenaic school, who made bodily, kinetic pleasure the sole good. Cicero uses him as the consistent hedonist against whom Epicurus's hybrid doctrine looks confused.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.20 of pleasure, Aristippus
Aristippus of Cyrene founded the Cyrenaic school, which made bodily pleasure the end of life. He is named as the champion of the first of the three 'nearest' simple views of the good.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.15 the Socratic Aristippus
Aristippus of Cyrene, a pupil of Socrates and founder of the hedonist Cyrenaic school, who made bodily pleasure the good and bodily pain the supreme evil. Cicero ranks him first by authority and antiquity among those who called pain the supreme evil.