Philosopher
Theodorus the Atheist
Overview
Theodorus the Atheist (Ancient Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ ἄθεος, romanized: Theódōros ho átheos; c. 340 – c. 250 BCE), of Cyrene, was a Greek philosopher of the Cyrenaic school. He lived in both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene. As a Cyrenaic philosopher, he taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief, and that the former resulted from knowledge, and the latter from ignorance. However, his principal claim to fame was his alleged atheism. He was usually designated by ancient writers ho atheos (ὁ ἄθεος), "the atheist".
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Philosophers who discussed Theodorus the Atheist
- Crates of Athens
- Bion of Borysthenes
- Hipparchia of Maroneia
- Aristippus the Younger
- Arete of Cyrene
- Dionysius of Chalcedon
Ideas Theodorus the Atheist discusses
- Epicurus
- Greece
- Athens
- Philosophy
- Pyrrho
- Atheism
- Ancient Corinth
- Justice
- Sextus Empiricus
- Philo
- Natural law
- Knowledge
- Plutarch
- Aristippus
- Cyrenaics
- Ignorance
- Alexandria
- Zeno of Citium
- Pseudo-Plutarch
- Prudence
- Fallacy
- Cicero
- Ancient Greece
- Clement of Alexandria
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.