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[filed under theme 23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 3. Cyrenaic School ]

Full Idea

The Cyrenaics asserted that corporeal pleasures were superior to mental ones.

Gist of Idea

The Cyrenaics asserted that corporeal pleasures were superior to mental ones

Source

report of Aristippus the younger (fragments/reports [c.335 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.7.8

Book Ref

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.90