Hégésias

Hégésias , known as Peisithanatos , Philosopher Cyrénaïque, born about the year 300 av. J. - C.

It also supported that it there has not happiness possible and that death is preferable with life (except for the wise one to which both is indifferent), advised it the suicide, which made it call Peisithanatos (Pisithanate: that which pushes with dead)

“Happiness is thing absolutely impossible, because the body is overpowered many sufferings, the heart which takes part in these sufferings of the body in is also disturbed, finally Fortune prevents the realization of good number of our hopes, so that for these reasons happiness does not have a real existence. ”
(, II, 94)

Its teaching having involved many suicides, the king Ptolémée made prohibit its books and to close its school and exiled it.

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