# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aristippus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:10.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aristippus"
name: "Aristippus"
slug: "aristippus"
description: "He studied under Socrates, then broke away to argue that pleasure — immediate, physical, lived — was the only real good worth chasing. The split earned him scorn from his fellow students, but Aristippus built it into a school anyway, teaching that the trick wasn't renouncing desire but mastering it."
tagline: "Greek philosopher, founder of Cyrenaicism (c.435–c.356 BCE)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aristippus.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-435"
deathDate: "-355"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.87
  momentum:             16.56040268456376
  historical:           24.205092
  currentAttention:     7.50143815915628
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Academics"
    slug: "academics"
  - name: "Academic"
    slug: "academic"
  - name: "Philosophy"
    slug: "philosophy"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippus"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Aristippus"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristipp"
    title: "Aristipp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BF"
    title: "Арыстып"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF"
    title: "Аристип"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristip"
    title: "Aristip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristip_de_Cirene"
    title: "Aristip de Cirene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippos_z_Kyr%C3%A9ny"
    title: "Aristippos z Kyrény"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippos_af_Kyrene"
    title: "Aristippos af Kyrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippos_von_Kyrene"
    title: "Aristippos von Kyrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%9A%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Αρίστιππος ο Κυρηναίος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristipo"
    title: "Aristipo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristipo"
    title: "Aristipo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippos"
    title: "Aristippos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristipo"
    title: "Aristipo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "آریستیپوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippos"
    title: "Aristippos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristippe_de_Cyr%C3%A8ne"
    title: "Aristippe de Cyrène"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristipo_de_Cirene"
    title: "Aristipo de Cirene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "אריסטיפוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8"
    title: "अरिस्तिप्पुस"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristip_iz_Cirene"
    title: "Aristip iz Cirene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arisztipposz"
    title: "Arisztipposz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%BA%D5%B8%D5%BD_%D4%BF%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB"
    title: "Արիստիպոս Կիրենացի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristipp"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristip"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristippos_z_Kyr%C3%A9ny"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://el.wikiquote.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%9A%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Cyrene around 435 BCE, Aristippus came to Athens and became a pupil of Socrates. But he peeled off from the master's path, developing a philosophy that put pleasure at the center: life's goal was to adapt circumstances to yourself, stay in control through hardship and wealth alike, and never let anything own you — "I possess, I am not possessed," he said. The stance put him at odds with Socrates and the other students, who saw hedonism as a betrayal. He founded the Cyrenaic school around this vision of ethical hedonism. Late in life, he named his daughter Arete his intellectual heir over his two sons; she and her son, Aristippus the Younger, systematized his teachings and carried the school forward after his death around 356 BCE.