Diogenes Laertes - Cyrenaic Sages, Virtue, And Happiness - Sadler's Lectures
Sadler's Lectures
English - February 24, 2023 18:08 - 15 minutes - 22 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 2, The Life of Aristippus
It focuses specifically on how Aristippus and the Cyrenaics viewed the figure of the "sage" or wise person, how they understood happiness, and where virtue and the virtues figure into the good life.
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