Aristippus’ Ethics

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Aristippus’ Ethics.

University of Oslo, Oslo 2008, stor 8vo, orig. omslag, 172 s., engelsk tekst, avhandling for graden PhD.

«The traditional characterization we have handed down to us of Aristippus amounts to something like the following. That though he led a kind of colourful, iconoclastic pleasure-filled life, there was little there in the way of a clearly defined end or telos, no conception, in other words, of happiness, eudaimonia or life as a whole, […] This study calls into doubt this traditional characterization. It tries to establish a picture of Aristippus as someone deeply concerned with traits like self-mastery and self-sufficiency, and suggests alternate constructions of his ethical views, […]» — 5