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Definition of Cyrenaic in English: Cyrenaicadjective ˌsʌɪərɪˈneɪɪkˌsɪrəˈneɪɪk Denoting the hedonistic school of philosophy founded c.400 BC by Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene, which holds that pleasure is the highest good and that virtue is to be equated with the ability to enjoy. Example sentencesExamples - In ethics he followed within certain limits the Cyrenaic doctrine, conceiving the highest good to be happiness, and happiness to be found in pleasure, to which the natural impulses of every being are directed.
- The first of the Cyrenaic school was Aristippus, who came from Cyrene, a Greek city on the north African coast.
- A member of the society of Pythagoras, Theodorus was one of the main philosophers in the Cyrenaic school of moral philosophy.
- Aristippus was a follower of Socrates, and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.
- One of the most striking features of Cyrenaic ethics is their assertion that it is pleasure, and not happiness, which is the highest good.
noun ˌsʌɪərɪˈneɪɪkˌsɪrəˈneɪɪk A follower of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. Example sentencesExamples - Together with the Megarians, Cyrenaics and Cynics they count among the minor Socratic schools.
- But the aim is not with him, as it is with the Cyrenaics, the pleasure of the moment, but the enduring condition of pleasure, which, in its essence, is freedom from the greatest of evils, pain.
- Alone among ancient philosophers, some of the Cyrenaics say that we should not be concerned about it.
- There are important differences between Protagoras' relativism and the Cyrenaics ' subjectivism.
- Because of the contempt that the hedonism of Aristippus and the Cyrenaics inspired, Aristippus became a natural focal point for many scandalous stories that were supposed to provide fitting illustrations of his thought.
- Aware of the Cyrenaics who hold that pleasures, moral and immoral, are the end or goal of all action, Epicurus presents a sustained argument that pleasure, correctly understood, will coincide with virtue.
- The Cyrenaics and others maintained that this condition is not pleasurable but rather neutral - neither pleasurable nor painful.
Derivatives noun He journeys from Stoicism to Cyrenaicism to Epicureanism, and finally to Christianity. Example sentencesExamples - Around the time of Epicurus, a number of offshoot sects of Cyrenaicism sprung up.
- When I went to stay with him in the late spring of 1884, when Oxford was looking its loveliest, we had many long talks about Marius and the new Cyrenaicism, and on all implied in what it has become the vogue to call the new Hedonism.
- Pater drew even more substantively from the Idea in the first two chapters of Volume II of Marius, the crucial period when Marius contemplates the basis for a broader and deeper morality than his Cyrenaicism had provided.
Rhymes alcaic, algebraic, Aramaic, archaic, choleraic, deltaic, formulaic, Hebraic, Judaic, Mishnaic, Mithraic, mosaic, Pharisaic, prosaic, Ptolemaic, Romaic, spondaic, stanzaic, trochaic Definition of Cyrenaic in US English: Cyrenaicadjectiveˌsɪrəˈneɪɪkˌsirəˈnāik Of or denoting the hedonistic school of philosophy, which was founded c.400 BC by Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene and which holds that pleasure is the highest good and that virtue is to be equated with the ability to enjoy. Example sentencesExamples - In ethics he followed within certain limits the Cyrenaic doctrine, conceiving the highest good to be happiness, and happiness to be found in pleasure, to which the natural impulses of every being are directed.
- The first of the Cyrenaic school was Aristippus, who came from Cyrene, a Greek city on the north African coast.
- Aristippus was a follower of Socrates, and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.
- One of the most striking features of Cyrenaic ethics is their assertion that it is pleasure, and not happiness, which is the highest good.
- A member of the society of Pythagoras, Theodorus was one of the main philosophers in the Cyrenaic school of moral philosophy.
nounˌsɪrəˈneɪɪkˌsirəˈnāik A follower of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. Example sentencesExamples - The Cyrenaics and others maintained that this condition is not pleasurable but rather neutral - neither pleasurable nor painful.
- Together with the Megarians, Cyrenaics and Cynics they count among the minor Socratic schools.
- But the aim is not with him, as it is with the Cyrenaics, the pleasure of the moment, but the enduring condition of pleasure, which, in its essence, is freedom from the greatest of evils, pain.
- Because of the contempt that the hedonism of Aristippus and the Cyrenaics inspired, Aristippus became a natural focal point for many scandalous stories that were supposed to provide fitting illustrations of his thought.
- Alone among ancient philosophers, some of the Cyrenaics say that we should not be concerned about it.
- Aware of the Cyrenaics who hold that pleasures, moral and immoral, are the end or goal of all action, Epicurus presents a sustained argument that pleasure, correctly understood, will coincide with virtue.
- There are important differences between Protagoras' relativism and the Cyrenaics ' subjectivism.
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