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    Cicero Reading the Cyrenaics on the Anticipation of Future Harms
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (2): 431-443. 2019.
    A common reading of the Cyrenaics is that they are a school of extreme hedonist presentists, recognising only the pleasure of the present moment, and advising against turning our attention to past or future pleasure or pain. Yet they have some strange advice which tells followers to anticipate future harms in order to lessen the unexpectedness of them when they occur. It’s a puzzle, then, how they can consistently hold the attitude they do to our concern with our present selves, and yet endorse …Read more