His attitude was grounded in his great disdain for what he perceived as the folly, vanity, pretence, self-deception, social climbing, and artificiality of much human conduct. Attracted by the ascetic (cynic school) teaching of Antisthenes, Diogenes came to be his student.:Īntisthenes struck Diogenes with his staff when Diogenes first came to the doors of the cynic school, but Diogenes refused to leave and said " Strike me, Antisthenes, but you will never find a stick sufficiently hard to remove me from your presence, while you speak anything worth hearing." Then, Diogenes became a student of Antisthenes.Īs Diogenes gained reputation in the school, he foremost avoided earthly pleasures. The story of how Diogenes and Antisthenes (his former teacher who himself was a student of Socrates) came together is an interesting one. Sold as a slave, he pointed and said, " Sell me to this man he needs a master." The man heeded the advice, and entrusted Diogenes with his household and the education of his children. To get back to his society nickname “dog” I kick off the first few anecdotes that makes this compilation from the cynic:Īs to why he was called a dog, Diogenes replied, " Because I fawn upon those who give me anything, and bark at those who give me nothing, and bite the rogues. I've never found and I believe I neither shall, one of his caliber. He was a man on his own, his name Diogenes and lived in the City Sinope. In any way whether he was seen as a bum, a grumpy old man or as a dog. In fact, Diogenes teacher Antisthenes - pupil of Socrates - founded the Greek school of cynicism, and Diogenes was and is the most notorious cynic. It was this ultimate determination to follow his own dictates and not adhere to the conventions of society, that he was given the epithet "dog," from which the name "cynic" is derive. He lived in a barrel, lived naked and aside the common society. He lived his life in extreme simplicity, inured to want, and without shame. 412 - 323 B.C.)ĭiogenes is often considered one of the more eccentric, or at the very least untraditional, of the ancient Greek philosophers. Diogenes of Sinope ( aka Diogenes the Cynic/Dog) (c.
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