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Bodily Pleasures
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Cyrenaic Doctrines
Cyrenaic Epistemology
Cyrenaic Ethics
Cyrenaic Hedonism
Cyrenaic Philosophy
Cyrenaic School
Cyrenaic View
diogenes
Diogenes Laertius
Doctrinal Continuity
Doctrinal Views
doctrine
epistemology
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ethics
Fourth Century BCE
Future Pleasures
Good Life
Hate Men
Internal Touch
laius
Loose Subject
Mental Pleasures
philosophy
Plato's Testimony
Plato’s Testimony
Psychological Connectedness
school
Socratic Schools
subtler
Subtler Thinkers
thinkers
Vice Versa
views
Product details
- ISBN 9781844657636
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Cyrenaic school of philosophy (named after its founder Aristippus' native city of Cyrene in North Africa) flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. This book begins by introducing the main figures of the Cyrenaic school beginning with Aristippus and setting them in their historical context. Once the reader is familiar with those figures and with the genealogy of the school, the book offers an overview of ancient and modern interpretations of the Cyrenaics, providing readers with alternative accounts of the doctrines they endorsed and of the role they played in the context of ancient thought. Finally, the book offers a reconstruction of Cyrenaic philosophy and shows how the ethical side of their speculation connected with the epistemology and ontology they endorsed and that, as a result, the Cyrenaics were able to offer a quite sophisticated philosophy. Indeed, Zilioli demonstrates that they represented, in ancient philosophy, an important and original metaphysical position and alternative to the kind of realism endorsed by Plato and Aristotle.
Ugo Zilioli is Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy.
