Sayings and Anecdotes With Other Popular Moralists

Name: Sayings and Anecdotes With Other Popular Moralists
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ISBN: 9780199589241

ISBN-10: 0199589240

ISBN-13: 9780199589241

Edition: 2012

Authors: Diogenes the Diogenes the Cynic, Robin Hard

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Diogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior were legendary, and it was by means of his renowned aphorisms that his moral teachings were transmitted. He scorned the conventions of civilized life, and his ascetic lifestyle and caustic opinions informed the Cynic philosophy and later influenced Stoicism. This unique edition also covers his immediate successors, such as Crates, his wife Hipparchia, and the witty moral preacher Bion. The contrasting teachings of the Cyrenaic school, founded by Aristippos, a pleasure-loving friend of Socrates, complete the volume, together with a selection of…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.72" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction


The Cynic Succession


The Cyrenaic Succession


Note 0n the Texts


Note on the Ancient Sources


Select Bibliography


Sayings and Anecdotes



Diogenes and the Early Cynics



A Humorous Portrait of Diogenes and Aristippos



Diogenes' Conversion to the Ascetic Life



The Sage as Beggar



Self-characterization



A Short Cut to Philosophy and Virtue



The World of Illusion



Religion and Superstition



Politicians and Rulers



The Enslavement of Diogenes



Moralistic and Traditional



Diogenes as Wit



Old Age and Death



Immediate Followers of Diogenes



Sayings, Anecdotes, and Verses of Crates



The Followers of Crates and Later Cynics



Postscript: Bion of Borysthenes



Antisthenes as Forerunner of Cynicism



Aristippos and the Cyrenaics



Aristippos of Cyrene



The Cyrenaic School under the Younger Aristippos



The Other Cyrenaics



Apocryphal Letters



Selections from the Cynic Letters



Correspondence of Aristippos


Explanatory Notes


Index of Names


Index of Themes