advocated purposefully living an ascetic life with only bare necessities in accordance with nature, rejecting all "unnatural pleasures" that were associated with society or its material benefits. Pleasures provided by nature (which would be immediately accessible) were acceptable, however. Crates hence claimed "Philosophy is a quart of beans and to care for nothing". Stoicism would be based on the ethical ideas of the Cynics.

Cyrenaics

The Cyrenaics, beginning

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