Who are the enemies of Philebus? (Phil. 44 B6)
Keywords:
Pleasure, Hedonism, Anti-hedonism, RationalismAbstract
This paper aims at suggesting that the expression “the enemies of Philebus” (Phil. 44 B6) does not refer to Democritus, nor to Antisthenes or Speusippus, but rather to the philosopher Antiphon. The hypothesis can be made plausible both by means of an analysis of some fragments of Antiphon, and by the assumption that the Platonic expression is part of his strategy of siding with the anti-hedonists in order to preserve the Socratic inheritance about the treatment of the passions as well as to highlight his new conception of the nature of pleasure.
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