Calliphon (or Callipho, ) was a

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, who probably belonged to the

Peripatetic school The Peripatetic school ( ) was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. The school fell into decline afte ...

and lived in the 2nd century . He is mentioned several times and condemned by

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...

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.Cicero, ''de Finibus'', ii. 6, 11, iv. 18, v. 8, 25, ''de Officiis'', iii. 33, ''Tusculanae Quaestiones'', v. 30, 31; Clement of Alexandria, ''Stromata'', 2. § 127.

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