The Cynics

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What did Antisthenes think about pleasure?

"I'd rather be mad than experience pleasure."

According to Cynics, what is the aim of life?

Happiness

What did Antisthenes say about the Sage?

It's self-sufficient and everything belongs to him.

What did Antisthenes say about virtue?

It's the goal of life. It's teachable and cannot be lost once learned.

According to the Cynics, what does virtue consist of?

Living in accordance with nature.

What did the Cynic philosophy declare was "useless and unnecessary"?

Music Geometry Astronomy

The Cynics said they were only bound by the laws of __________.

Nature

What would the Cynics do in public?

Poop Masturbate Have sex

Diogenes claimed that what is natural to humans is __________.

Reasonable

What did Antisthenes think about wealth?

Rejected all wealth except the "wealth of the soul." (which is achieved through "toil")

What did the Cynics advocate for?

Return to nature.

According the the Cynics, anything else is?

Superfluous Counterproductive

What did the Cynics allow?

Temple robbing Incest Cannibalism Free love

What type of philosophy did Antisthenes avoid?

Theoretical Philosophy

What did Diogenes claim was the Cynic way of life?

To employ reason to discover what is necessary and sufficient for happiness.

According to the Cynics, what is the only thing important for happiness?

Virtue

What was the Cynics' argument for a return to nature?

What is natural is neither dishonorable nor indecent, and therefor can and should be done in public.

Who was supposedly a student of Crates?

Zeno of Citium

Who did Antisthenes say was the exemplar of a proper life?

Heracles

Since living in accordance with nature is simple, it results in complete _______________.

Independence

What is one attribute of the Cynics?

Fearless

Why were Diogenes and his father run out of Sinope?

For counterfeiting coins.

What convention did the Cynics reject?

Governments

Who was Crates?

A student of Diogenes.

What did the Cynics despise?

All artifice.

Who is the "founder" of the Cynics?

Antisthenes

Who were the most important philosopher for moral philosophy?

Aristippus (hedonist) Antisthenes

Where did Diogenes spent most of his life?

Athens Corinth

What is another word for independence?

Autarkeia

What does Cynic literally mean?

Canine

What did "artifice" include?

Cleanliness Pleasant appearance Courtesy

Who were Cynic philosophers that were a generation younger than Diogenes?

Crates Hipparchia

In writing, the Cynics invented a literary form called ________, in which rhetorical questions would be posed and then answered by the writer.

Diatriabes

Who is the founder of Cynic philosophy?

Diogenes of Sinope

Hipparchia (married to Crates) was treated as the ______ of her husband.

Equal


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