It is of the utmost importance that this development of Cyrenaic hedonism should be fully realized.
Developing from this is a new point of practical importance to the hedonism of the Cyrenaics.
Thus, in the end, Aristippus, the founder of ' the purest hedonism in the history of thought, comes very near not only to the Cynics, but to the more cultured hedonism of Epicurus and modern thinkers.