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DENIZ MACHIN, Deyvis. Infallibility of Perception and the Knowledge of one’s own Affections in Aristippus of Cyrene. Argos [online]. 2013, vol.30, n.58, pp.75-106. ISSN 0254-1637.

The aim of the present paper is casting light on the figure as well as the philosophical thought of Aristippus of Cyrene, who took perception as source for knowledge and pleasure as the proper path by which good life is achieved. Nevertheless, the doxographical tradition does set some difficulties, in being frequently prone to link and melt down the theses of the disciple of Socrates and the ones of his homonymous grandson.  Nowadays interpreters recognize rather this latter as the one who gave the final organization of the Cyrenaic School, if not as his genuine founder. Taking account of this hermeneutic-interpretative obstacle, the philosophical profile which is here presented puts into dialogue the biographical-philosophical doxography with the philosophical-doctrinal one, in order to display a contextualized image of the one who certainly was the most controversial Socratic thinker.

Palabras clave : perception (a‡sqhsij); affections (p£qh); movement (k…nhsij).

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