54 - Instant Gratification: the Cyrenaics
Posted on 13 November 2011
Peter considers Aristippus and the Cyrenaics, a group of hedonistic philosophers who were in touch with their feelings… but nothing else.
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Further Reading:
• T. Irwin, “Aristippus Against Happiness,” The Monist 74 (1991), 55-82
• T. O’Keefe, “The Cyrenaics on Pleasure, Happiness, and Future-Concern,” Phronesis 47 (2002), 395-416.
• V. Tsouna, The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge: 1998)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Cyrenaics
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