Aristippus was a follower of Socrates, and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. |
For Socrates the act of communication is grounded in the world of original forms, archetypes, or abstract ideas. |
Socrates never claimed any special positive knowledge of justice, virtue, and so on. |
One thinks of the shopkeepers and craftsmen in and around the Agora with whom Socrates passed the time of day. |
Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher who moved in the same circles as Socrates. |
For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch. |