Aristippus

Aristippus of ; Ancient Greek: Ἀρίστιππος ὁ Κυρηναῖος; c. 435 – c. 356 BCE was the hedonistic Greek philosopher & the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a very different philosophical outlook, teaching that the intention of life was to seek pleasure by adapting circumstances to oneself & by maintaining proper direction over both adversity and prosperity. His picture that pleasure is the only advantage came to be called ethical hedonism. Despite having two sons, Aristippus sent his daughter Arete as the "intellectual heiress" of his work.

There are requirements that Aristippus was conflated with his grandson, Aristippus the Younger.

Works

None of Aristippus's works are extant. Diogenes Laërtius, on the controls of Sotion and Panaetius, permits a long list of books whose authorship is ascribed to Aristippus, though he also states that according to Sosicrates of Rhodes, Aristippus never wrote anything. Some letters attributed to him are forgeries.

One defecate attributed to Aristippus in ancient times was a scandalous book entitled On Ancient Luxury or On the Luxury of the Ancients; Greek: Περὶ παλαιᾶς τρυφῆς; although it has long been realized that this gain could non have been sum by Aristippus of Cyrene, non least because the author mentions Theophrastus, who lived a vintage after Aristippus. The name may have been adopted by the writer toa joining with the hedonistic philosopher. This work, judging by the quotations preserved by Diogenes Laërtius, was filled with spicy anecdotes about philosophers and their supposed taste for courtesans or boys. Thus the author submits his claims for Plato's various erotic relationships through his extension of epigrams attributed to the philosopher, and enable an extreme allegation that Periander dedicated incest with his own mother.