Is shamelessness a Cynic virtue?

Is shamelessness a Cynic virtue?

In short, the answer is no! Diogenes has often shown himself to be very shameless Not only the gossip press, but also philosophers often seem to be sensationalists. This may be the reason why, when it comes to cynicism in school or university and Diogenes,…
Hippies

Cynics: Hippies or Heracles?

If you see illustrations of Diogenes today, he looks like you would imagine a hippie to look, scruffy, long hair, loose.Even if some of this image is true, I would like to start by saying that the role model of Diogenes and the ancient cynics…
Rather, a cow goes through the eye of a needle….

Rather, a cow goes through the eye of a needle….

The claim that Cynics preach and live unconditional poverty is as false as it seems ineradicable. It is based on misunderstandings. Cynicism knows only one virtue From a philosophical point of view, Cynicism is extremely minimalist. It knows only one virtue: self-realization, understood as the…
Jesus Erasmus Nietzsche 3 cynics

Jesus, Erasmus, Nietzsche: Three Famous Cynics.

If we ever hear about Cynism at all, for example in the media or in philosophy classes in schools, then usually only Diogenes is mentioned. Or at least it is mentioned that Cynism was famous for about 1000 years and then disappeared from history. The…
A video introduction to cynicism from TED

A video introduction to cynicism from TED

There is some stuff in the video that is not quite right. Diogenes was not necessarily the first cynic. And he also did not live constantly in a barrel, or virtually on the street. During a ship voyage, he fell into slavery and was then…
Socrates was not an atheist, on the contrary. But he was judged for atheism.

Socrates and our God

Socrates brought about a "Copernican turn" about 2000 years before Copernicus. OK. That is not possible. But if it could, then he would have deserved this proud attribute. Socrates is the father of Cynicism. Without Socrates no Diogenes, no Jesus, no Nietzsche, no Klaus. The…
Machbuba, 10-year-old slave of Prince Pückler, ca. 1840

Become a pedophile

The following text is an example of parrhesia and revaluation of all values at the same time. I openly represent a position which is socially outlawed, but which is also a truth about me. Become a pedophile? That's just about the limit! Most want to…
On the etymology of the term “cynicism”

On the etymology of the term “cynicism”

The most famous and one of the first cynics was Diogenes. This philosopher, who allegedly lived in a wine barrel, was revered by many Greeks. According to the most famous anecdote, Alexander the Great is said to have visited him and suggested that he make…
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling

No cynicism without God possible

The enlighteners not only killed God, quoting Nietzsche's lament. But with it also the free will. In the empirically conceived natural science something like free will is disproved for all times. Nihil est sine ratione is the sentence of the reason on which we will…
The stoa: Here the Stoics were taught that virtue is the highest form of good, and all other things were neither good or bad, but were materials for virtue to act upon.

Difference between Stoa and Cynicism

Schopenhauer, whom we already cannot like because he belongs to those, who thought it better not to be born and therefore regarded compassion for the living as a necessary ethical attitude, has only contempt for the Stoa vs Cynicism: This was the means of information…