Hegesias of Cyrene

Hegesias of Cyrene in Wikipedia

Hegesias (Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BCE[1]) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that happiness is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life was the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain. Cicero claims that Hegesias w...

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Hegesias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A famous Cyrenaic philosopher who flourished about B.C. 340, and known as Πεισιθάνατος from his arguments in favor of suicide. See Cyrenaici....

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