Calliphon (or Callipho, grc-x-koine, Καλλιφῶν) was a

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece 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 ...

philosopher, who probably belonged to the

Peripatetic school The Peripatetic school was a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece. Its teachings derived from its founder, Aristotle (384–322 BC), and ''peripatetic'' is an adjective ascribed to his followers. The school dates from around 335 BC when Aristo ...

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, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue ( la, honestas) and bodily pleasure ( grc, ἡδονή, la, voluptas), 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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