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  1. A school of Greek hedonistic philosophy
  2. founded about 400 BC by Aristippus of Cyrene.
  3. He regarded pleasure as the only absolutely
  4. worthwhile thing in life but taught that
  5. self-control and intelligence were necessary
  6. to choose the best pleasures.
  7.