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…
Cynicism is the Mother of Anarchy

Cynicism is the Mother of Anarchy

In order to understand whether cynism is anarchy, we must first answer the question of what is meant by anarchy. First of all, there are two directions of people who claim to be representatives of anarchy. There are those who reject every form of domination…
caspar david friedrich melancholic trees

Cynicism: Practicing of Virtue Ethics

Gocyinc.com is the world's first and currently the only blog that informs not only about history, but about current livable cynicism.On this page I give you all important informations about cynicism, the cynical art of living and the development of cynicism from its beginnings in…
Diogenes is happy with only one virtue: parrhesia

Only one virtue: Parrhesia

Everything you've heard about cynism is wrong. You don't have to live in a barrel, like Diogenes. You don't have to give up everything. There is only one goal: live happily. And two rules, respectively one virtue, to achieve it. Parrhesia is your path to…
the revaluation of all value

Revaluation of all values

The term "revaluation of all values" comes from Nietzsche. The early Cynics called it the revaluation or devaluation of the valid coin. However, what is meant is exactly what Nietzsche formulates. Modern Cynics therefore adopt Nietzsche's formulation and speak of the revaluation of the ruling…