DEFINITION: 1
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revealing contempt for every social convention or moral ideal;
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2 {} is said history of ancient Greek philosophers who preached contempt of honors , wealth and social conventions and moral
Assuming the objectivity of these definitions above, I avoid all my opinion on the definition of the term.
but I'm interested to deepen a particularly cynical, indeed, cynical by definition. Diogenes of Sinope
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who was useless to explain what accounted for etc etc ... we just report what was said and done to make (to me) one of the most admirable of all time.
quotes and anecdotes: * During a banquet
the cast of the bones, like a dog. Diogenes, walked away, pissed on them, like a dog
* Once he saw a woman pleading with the gods in attitude rather inconvenient and said: "I do not think, or woman, that God can stand behind you, because everything is full of his presence, and you should be ashamed to ask him sprawling?
* Where once was sunbathing, Alexander the Great occurred shadow and greeted him said, "Ask whatever you want." Diogenes And, in return, "Let my sun
* So a man who answered claimed that there was the movement: he rose and walked
* The king Alexander to make a fool of him that was called cynical, he sent a tray full of bones and he accepted him and sent him to say: "Worthy of a dog food, but not worthy of the king's gift to Aegina
* Sailing in fact, was seized by pirates, whose head was Scirpalo. He was taken to Crete and there exposed for sale. And the herald asked him what he could do, Diogenes replied: ' Order men '. It was then that he offered such a Corinth who wore a purple robe fine, except that the Seniade, and said,' Sell me this man: he needs a master
(all these anecdotes have been taken filosofico.net site)
and for those who wish to learn Diogenes, I highly recommend reading a book dedicated to him, entitled Philosophy of the dog.
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