Aristippus of Cyrene#Aristippus
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#Aristippus
Aristippus of Cyrene · c. 435–356 BCE
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“He took exactly one thing from Socrates — his easy, unshakeable freedom — and built from it the boldest defense of pleasure the ancient world ever produced.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Pleasure — bodily, present-tense, right now — is the good; the art of living is to enjoy it without ever being enslaved by it.”
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