Title: The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life.
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Price: \9,960
Author: Lampe, Kurt
ISBN: 978-0-691-16113-6 Binding: Hardback Paperback    
Pub Date: 2014 Availability: A Illust:
Publisher(Imprint): Princeton U.P.
           
Description: According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better