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cyrenaics
3 May 06
The Cyrenaics were a school of ancient Greek philosophy, “notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism” (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It’s possible that epicureans would be a better name for this category than cyrenaics, but Epicurus “taught that the point of all one’s actions was to attain pleasure (conceived of as tranquility) for oneself, and that this could be done by limiting one’s desires and by banishing the fear of the gods and of death” (also IEP), and that doesn’t quite cut it. Besides, “epicurean” has come to be used almost exclusively to refer to the pleasures of food—just drop the word in Google as evidence.
So cyrenaics it is.
Posted by pzed on May 3, 2006 at 9.50am
Categories: cyrenaics, metawords
