CONTENTS.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Grote, George
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Conversation between Sokrates and Aristippus about the Good and Beautiful
184
Remarks on the conversation — Theory of Good
185
Good is relative to human beings and wants in the view of Sokrates
ib.
Aristippus adhered to the doctrine of Sokrates
186
Life and dicta of Aristippus — His type of character
ib.
Aristippus acted conformably to the advice of Sokrates
187
Self mastery and independence — the great aspiration of Aristippus
188
Aristippus compared with Antisthenes and Diogenes — Points of agreement and disagreement between them
190
Attachment of Aristippus to ethics and philosophy — contempt for other studies
192
Aristippus taught as a Sophist. His reputation thus acquired procured for him the attentions of Dionysius and others
193
Ethical theory of Aristippus and the Kyrenaic philosophers
195
Prudence — good, by reason of the pleasure which it ensured, and of the pains which it was necessary to avoid. Just and honourable, by law or custom — not by nature
197
Their logical theory — nothing knowable except the phenomenal, our own sensations and feelings — no knowledge of the absolute
197
Doctrines of Antisthenes and Aristippus passed to the Stoics and Epikureans
198
Ethical theory of Aristippus is identical with that of the Platonic Sokrates in the Protagoras
199
Difference in the manner of stating the theory by the two
200
Distinction to be made between a general theory — and the particular application of it made by the theorist to his own tastes and circumstances
201
Kyrenaic theorists after Aristippus
202
Theodôrus — Annikeris — Hegesias
ib.
Hegesias — Low estimation of life — renunciation of pleasure — coincidence with the Cynics