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Cynics "Cynics," the "dog philosophers" of the Greek and Roman world, so called almost certainly from the nickname of Diogenes of Sinope, were not a continuous school of theoretical philosophy but an erratic succession of...
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The Cynics (Greek: Κυνικοί, Latin: Cynici) were an influential group of philosophers from the ancient school of Cynicism. Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. The name Cynic derives...


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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever...


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The Economist (US)
The Cynics.
05/17/1997: 534 words, approx. 2 pages
THE CYNICS. Edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze. University of California Press; 413 pages; $55 and K45 DIOGENES of Sinope, a philosopher who died in around 321 BC, lived in a wine barrel, advocated public masturbation and tried to eat...
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The Village Voice
The Cynic
07/04/2007: 334 words, approx. 1 pages
No End of Blame By Howard Barker Potomac Theatre Project at the Atlantic Stage 2 330 West 16th Street 800-838-3006 The Cynic Brit Howard Barker on power, art, and dissent BY TOM SELLAR How's this for...
 


 

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