Concept
Cyrenaics
Overview
ancient Greek philosophical movement
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The philosophic development of this principle which, for the rest, has not much in it, is mainly ascribed to Aristippus’ follower, Aristippus the younger. But Theodorus, Hegesias, and Anniceris, of the later Cyrenaics, are specially mentioned as having scientifically worked out the Aristippian principle, until it degenerated and merged into Epicureanism. But the consideration of the further progress of the Cyrenaic…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Cyrenaics several times; opens on Cyrenaics.
See now how much more temperate the Cyrenaics are, who, though they have drunk out of the same bottle with Epicurus, yet will not allow men so much as to practise their amours by candlelight, but only under the covert of the dark, for fear seeing should fasten too quick an impression of the images of such actions upon the fancy and thereby too frequently inflame the desire. But these gentlemen account it the highest…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
States what Cyrenaics is; names Cyrenaics.
Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing failure of their traditional customs and beliefs to regulate life. Thus they were led to criticize custom adversely and to look for some other source of authority in life and belief.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Cyrenaics; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Cyrenaics
- Theodorus the Atheist
- Michel Onfray
- Aristippus
- Socrates
- Anaxarchus
- Hegesias of Cyrene
- Two Concepts of Liberty
- Bion of Borysthenes
- Aristippus the Younger
- Anniceris
- Dionysius the Renegade
- Arete of Cyrene
- Aristotle of Cyrene
- Antipater of Cyrene
- Aristoxenus of Cyrene
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Athens
- Hedonism
- Theodorus the Atheist
- Atheism
- Dionysius I of Syracuse
- Eudaimonia
- Philosophical skepticism
- Praeparatio evangelica
- Problem of the criterion
- Aristippus
- Socrates
- Trial of Socrates
- Empirical evidence
- Utilitarianism
- Altruism
- William Paley
- Epicureanism
- Aristocles of Messene
- Jeremy Bentham
- Virtue
- Common Era
- Cyrene, Libya
- Epistemology
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