Hegesias of Cyrene
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hegesias of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life should be the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain. Cicero claims that Hegesias wrote a book called ἀποκαρτερῶν , which persuaded so many people that death is more desirable than life that Hegesias was banned from teaching in Alexandria. It has been thought by some that Hegesias was influenced by Buddhist teachings.
