Aristippus of Cyrene, pleasure and the present /

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers in the ancient sources a neglected form of hedonism that endorses a present-focused therapeu...

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Main Author:	Mouroutsou, Georgia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Series:	Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient philosophy.
Subjects:	Aristippus, > 435 B.C.?-356 B.C.? Hedonism. Pleasure > Philosophy. Hédonisme. Hedonism Pleasure > Philosophy