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Hieronymus of Rhodes
Hieronymus
also: Hieronymus, Hieronymus Peripateticus
Peripatetic philosopher and literary critic of the third century BC. Cicero (Orator 190) reports his malicious attempt to extract scanning verses from the prose of Isocrates, in which he himself let a senarius slip.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.8 Hieronymus of Rhodes
A Peripatetic philosopher of the third century BC who held that the highest good is freedom from pain (indolentia) rather than positive pleasure. Cicero repeatedly uses his position to expose the ambiguity in Epicurus's notion of pleasure.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.14 freedom from pain as the highest good
Hieronymus of Rhodes made the absence of pain (indolentia) the supreme good, a position Cicero says disqualifies him as a true Peripatetic. The view recurs as one of the simple positions in the Carneadean division.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.15 Hieronymus of Rhodes said that to be free of pain is the supreme good
Hieronymus of Rhodes (3rd c. BC), a Peripatetic who held that the highest good is freedom from pain (indolentia), a position Cicero treats as overrating the evil of pain. Cicero discusses and refutes him at length in De Finibus.
- Tusculan Disputations §5.84 nothing is good but freedom from pain, as Hieronymus holds
Hieronymus of Rhodes, a Peripatetic philosopher (3rd cent. BC) who made the absence of pain (indolentia) the highest good. Cicero treats his view as one of the four "simple" verdicts on the ends.