Diogenes took Cynicism to its logical extremes, and came to be seen as the archetypal Cynic philosopher. He was followed by Diogenes, who lived in a ceramic jar on the streets of Athens. The first philosopher to outline these themes was Antisthenes, who had been a pupil of Socrates in the late 400s BC. The Cynics ( Ancient Greek: Κυνικοί, Latin: Cynici) rejected all conventional desires for wealth, fame, power, and worldly possessions and even flouted such conventions openly and derisively in public. According to Cynicism, people are reasoning animals and the purpose of life and the way to gain happiness is to achieve virtue, in agreement with nature, following one's natural sense of reason by living ascetically and shamelessly free from social constraints. The scroll in his right hand is an 18th-century restoration.Ĭynicism ( Ancient Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods. This statue is a Roman-era copy of an earlier Greek statue from the third century BC. Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. For modern use of the word for distrust of others' motives, see Cynicism (contemporary).
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