person
Calliphon
also: Calliphon, Calliphontem
A Hellenistic philosopher who held that the highest good is a compound of moral worth and pleasure. Cicero criticises him, with Dinomachus, for yoking together two incompatible ends.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.19 Callipho added pleasure to moral worth
Callipho (Calliphon) was a minor Hellenistic philosopher who made the highest good a combination of moral worth (honestas) and pleasure. Cicero repeatedly groups him with Diodorus and others among the "mixed" theories of the end.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.21 as Calliphon and Dinomachus held
Calliphon and Dinomachus were minor philosophers who combined pleasure with moral worth as a twofold highest good. They figure in Cicero's survey of the 'joined' theories.
- On Duties §3.119 Calliphon and Dinomachos
Two Hellenistic philosophers who tried to settle the debate over the highest good by combining moral worth with pleasure. Cicero rejects the union as yoking a beast to a human being.