In a dialogue, this position is briefly analyzed with a four-step “divine method” that was handed down by “some Prometheus.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this position attacked with Platonic animal analogies such as an oyster in the Philebus and the constantly-defecating “gully-bird” in the Gorgias. This was the signature position of the Cyrenaic school.
ANSWER: hedonism [or hedonists; prompt on descriptions of seeking pleasure or pleasure being the highest or only good]
[10e] The anti-hedonist founder of this school often yelled “I would rather go mad than feel pleasure!” Antisthenes founded this school, which included Hipparchia and her barrel-dwelling husband.
ANSWER: Cynicism [or Cynics]
[10h] One of the Cynic Letters of this thinker complains about excessive pursuit of pleasure. The 18th-century world federalist Baron de Cloots renamed himself after this Scythian philosopher who laughed at Solon’s constitution.
ANSWER: Anacharsis [accept Anacharsis Cloots]
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