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Calliphon

Epicurean philosopher

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Calliphon was a philosopher.

Calliphon (or Callipho, ) was a Greek philosopher, who probably belonged to the Peripatetic school and lived in the 2nd century . He is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue and bodily pleasure (, ), or, as Cicero says, in the union of the human with the beast.

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Who was Calliphon?

Epicurean philosopher

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Calliphon was a philosopher.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Calliphon

· Wikidata: Q718124

· DBpedia: Calliphon

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