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Jordan Crago

The Dude as Cyrenaic Sage

Dudeism is, depending on who you ask, a philosophy or religion based on the 1998 cult-classic, The Big Lebowski. The film follows the…

9 min readJun 4, 2022

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The Dude as Cyrenaic Sage

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Jordan Crago

How to be a Cyrenaic

Introduction:

12 min readJul 24, 2021

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How to be a Cyrenaic

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Jordan Crago

A longer introduction to Cyrenaic philosophy

Introduction:

10 min readJun 16, 2021

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A longer introduction to Cyrenaic philosophy

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Jordan Crago

Third Short Summary of Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure…

Chapter 7 focuses on the later Cyrenaic philosopher Hegesias, who is remarkable, so Lampe claims, for being the only true pessimist…

5 min readJun 8, 2021

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Third Short Summary of Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure…

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Jordan Crago

Second Short Summary of Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure…

Chapters 4 to 6, but especially chapter 4, deal with the Cyrenaic way of life, so for those interested in Cyrenaicism not just as a…

4 min readJun 8, 2021

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Second Short Summary of Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure…

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Jordan Crago

First Short Summary of Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure…

After an introductory chapter, Lampe begins his exploration of the Cyrenaics in chapter 2 with a historical overview of the movement. He…

4 min readJun 8, 2021

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First Short Summary of Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure…

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Jordan Crago

A brief introduction to Cyrenaic philosophy

Cyrenaicism, or the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, is named after the North African city of Cyrene, where most of the movement’s…

3 min readJun 4, 2021

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Jordan Crago

How I became interested in Cyrenaicism

5 min readJun 2, 2021

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Jordan Crago

Jordan Crago

I’m a philosophy graduate with an interest in the ancient Greek schools of Epicurus and Aristippus, and more recently, Dudeism

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