Love it.

>> ^asynchronice:
Love it.


Ya, its good stuff. Can't believe it has so many views and so few votes...haters!

awesome find GJF!
i am still waiting for the diogenes action figure.

Hahahah he would of hated to be remember as a material possession though. There is a story from him where he saw a young girl drinking from a well with her hands. When he saw her doing this he exclaimed something like "Seeing this, I no longer need a cup"....the man wouldn't own a cup!

I think though, having and honoring a dog would make him the most proud. The Greeks honored him by erecting a podium with a statue of a dog on it. Though, to be honest, Diogenes would of peed on said statue given the opportunity. (would it not be awesome to pee on something given to you as a high honor..HA!)

>> ^enoch:
awesome find GJF!
i am still waiting for the diogenes action figure.

Heh, awesome.

Though it does repeat one of the most common misconceptions about Diogenes. He didn't carry around the lamp saying "I'm looking for an honest man." How exactly this confusion came about, I'm not sure; none of the Greek sources have the word "honest" inserted. He just said "I'm looking for a man." (In the Greek, anthropos, or human being.) Which is to say that he thought the unnecessary institutions of civilization twisted humanity into an unrecognizable distortion of itself.

The cask he lived in was a cast off from the temple of Cybele. This is actually highly significant; Cybele was a goddess of the wilderness. The myths surrounding her implied that abandoning civilization was an entirely doable way to live.

One of my favorite quotes attributed to him is this: "When Lysias, the drug-seller, asked him whether he thought that there there any Gods: "How," said he, "can I help thinking so, when I consider you to be hated by them?"

Most of our knowledge of Dioegenes of Sinope comes from Diogenes Laertius, who wrote biographies of many major Greek philosophers in the 3rd century CE. An online English translation can be found here: http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/

^Aye, I am not sure where that comes from either. Without the "honest", man would make more since as it would seem to be making fun of Plato's man. What is most funny about him is just how many stories involve him getting his beat up! Not something you associated with thinkers...