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Cyrenaic

Member of a school of Greek hedonistic philosophy founded in about 400 BC by Aristippus of Cyrene. He regarded pleasure as the only absolutely worthwhile thing in life but taught that self-control and intelligence were necessary to choose the best pleasures.


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