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Aug 13, 2014 · Antisthenes of Athens (l. c. 445-365 BCE) was a Greek philosopher who founded the Cynic School. He was a follower of Socrates and appears in Plato 's Phaedo as one of those present at Socrates' death. He is also one of the primary interlocutors in Xenophon 's works Memorabilia and Symposium and teacher of Diogenes of Sinope.
Aug 26, 2014 · Antisthenes (c. 445-365 BCE) was a Greek philosopher who founded the Cynic School of Athens. He was a follower of Socrates and appears in Plato's Phaedo as one of those present at Socrates' death. He is one of the primary interlocutors in Xenophon's works Memorabilia and Symposium. Antisthenes, like Crito, was among the older students of ...
He was a rival of Plato, whose literary and philosophical successes eclipsed his own. Antisthenes differed from Plato on the theory of Forms, which Antisthenes rejected as unreal; the value of reading Homeric poetry, from which Antisthenes derived serious ethical truth; and the way that philosophically authoritative statements were true.
May 29, 2018 · The Greek philosopher Antisthenes (ca. 450-360 B.C.) was a devoted student and follower of Socrates and is credited with founding the Cynic Sect, which exerted great influence on the course of popular philosophy throughout antiquity.
Article Summary. Antisthenes was one of the most devoted followers of Socrates. As a young man he was heavily influenced by the display speeches of Gorgias the rhetorician and the interpretation of Homer practised by the Sophists. He himself wrote much in the same vein, although almost all has been lost. Antisthenes’ influence can be ...
Antisthenes - New World Encyclopedia. Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E. ), is one of the founders of the Cynic School of philosophy. In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, perhaps also under Hippias and Prodicus. He became a devoted pupil and close friend of Socrates, walking forty furlongs daily from Peiraeus to Athens to hear him speak.
"Antisthenes" published on by null. (c.445–c.360 bc)A devoted follower of Socrates, but also considered (e.g. by Diogenes Laertius) to be an important influence on the first famous Cynic, Diogenes of Sinope. He shared much of Socrates' ethical teaching, but with a rather hearty penchant for those states of self-sufficiency that are the result ...
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