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Cyrenaics

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A sect of Greek philosophers, disciples of Aristippus, who was a disciple of Socrates, but who broke away from his master by divorcing virtue from happiness, and making "pleasure, moderated by reason, the ultimate aim of life, and the supreme good."

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cyrenaics'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/cyrenaics.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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