Hedonistic Theories of Well-Being in Antiquity

In Guy Fletcher (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being. New York,: Routledge (2015)
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Focuses on the theories of the Epicureans and Cyrenaics in light of Plato's and Aristotle's criticisms of hedonism. Closes with a brief discussion of how the Pyrrhonian skeptical conception of the telos compares to the Epicureans'.

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