ARISTIPPUS (c. 435356 B.c.)

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ARISTIPPUS (c. 435356 B.c.) , Greek philosopher, the founder
of the Cyrenaic school, was the son of Aritadas, a merchant of Cyrene. At an early age he came to Athens, and was induced to remain by the fame of Socrates, whose pupil he became. Subsequently he travelled through a number of Grecian cities, and finally settled in Cyrene, where he founded his school. His philosophy was eminently

practical

PRACTICAL

(see CYRENAICS). Starting from the two Socratic principles of virtue and happiness, he emphasized the second, and made pleasure the criterion of

life

LIFE

. That he held to be good which gives the maximum of pleasure. In pursuance of this he indulged in all forms of external luxury. At the same time he remained thoroughly master of himself and had the self-

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

to refrain or to enjoy.

Diogenes

DIOGENES

Laertius (ii. 65), quoting

Phanias

PHANIAS

the peripatetic, says that he received money for his teaching, and

Aristotle

ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

(Met. ii. 2) expressly calls him a sophist.

Diogenes

DIOGENES

further states that he wrote several

treatises

TREATISES

, but none have survived. The five letters attributed to him are undoubtedly spurious. His daughter Arete, and her son Aristippus (rlrpoSiSarcros, " pupil of his

mother

MOTHER

"), carried on the school after his death. A cosmopolitan on principle, and a convinced disbeliever in the ethics of his day, he comes very near to modern empiricism and especially to the modern Hedonist school.

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