Aristippus
Greek philosopher, founder of Cyrenaicism (c.435–c.356 BCE)
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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.
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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 ov…
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