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Cynics
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: William Desmond
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arisin
The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Helen Small
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics t
Cynicism
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Ansgar Allen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. T
The Cynic Philosophers
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Diogenes of Sinope
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through viol
The Cynics
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Robert Bracht Branham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This collection of essays--the first of its kind in English--brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition assoc