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Cynicism (philosophy) Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. This statue is a Roman-era copy of an earlier Greek statue from the third century BC. [1] The scroll in his right hand is an 18th-century restoration. Cynicism ( Ancient Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy ...
Cynics. Cynicism originates in the philosophical schools of ancient Greece that claim a Socratic lineage. To call the Cynics a “school” though, immediately raises a difficulty for so unconventional and anti-theoretical a group. Their primary interests are ethical, but they conceive of ethics more as a way of living than as a doctrine in ...
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However, in two recent monographs that are devoted to the topic of ‘philosophy as a way of life’ in antiquity, one by Pierre Hadot, the other by John M. Cooper, the Cynics are virtually absent from their respective narratives. 2 In fact, the Cynics are deliberately dismissed as not really representative of the kind of philosophical life ...
Cynicism spread with the rise of Imperial Rome in the 1st Century A.D., and Cynics could be found begging and preaching throughout the cities of the Roman Empire, where they were treated with a mixture of scorn and respect. Cynicism seems to have thrived into the 4th Century A.D., unlike Stoicism, which had long declined by that time.
3 More sympathetic and in any case more comprehensive accounts of Cynicism can be found in the following publications: R. B. Branham and M.-O. Goulet-Cazé (eds.), The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy [Movement] OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 03/12/19, SPi Cynicism: Or, Philosophy as a Way of Strife 343 something to be ...
May 8, 2018 · CYNICS. Ascetical philosophers who appeared first in Athens in the 4th century, b.c.; their name ( οἳ κυνικοί ), derived from the Greek for dog ( κύων ), was applied to them chiefly for their vulgar and often shameless public behavior. Reliable testimony about the origins of the movement is lacking, and different hypotheses have ...
Abstract. The introductory chapter delivers the core critical-theoretical arguments of the book. It starts with a broad characterization of modern cynicism and a critical account of the main features of early philosophical Cynicism from which it derives and departs.
