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The Cyrenaics (Paperback)
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The Cyrenaics (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.
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