biography
pronunciation:
[aristipus]
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| lived:
| (4th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Greek philosopher, a native of Cyrene in Africa, hence the name of his followers, the Cyrenaics, who became an influential school. Their main doctrines were hedonism and the primacy of one's own immediate feelings. He became a pupil of Socrates at Athens, and taught philosophy both at Athens and Aegina, but lived much of his life as a voluptuary in Syracuse, at the court of Dionysius the tyrant. |
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