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Life of Aristippus - from "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius.

Aristippus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] - Aristippus was a follower of Socrates, and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He taught that the ultimate goal of all our actions is pleasure, and that we should not defer pleasures that are ready at hand for the sake of future pleasures.

 

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