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Full Idea
Cyrenaics claimed our final good was pleasure, best achieved by seeking maximum intensity of pleasurable experiences, but they explicitly admitted that this was not happiness.
Gist of Idea
Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness
Source
Julia Annas (The Morality of Happiness [1993], 1)
Book Ref
Annas,Julia: 'The Morality of Happiness' [OUP 1995], p.38
| 3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 3019 | No one pleasure is different from or more pleasant than another [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 3021 | The Cyrenaics asserted that corporeal pleasures were superior to mental ones [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 3543 | Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas] |