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cjoll4@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Context: the philosopher Plato defined a human as “a featherless biped,” and the philosopher Diogenes showed him how stupid that definition was by holding up a plucked chicken. BEHOLD! A MAN!
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 day ago
More broadly, the Cynics, whose thought was largely derived from Diogenes, believed very much in going with one’s ‘gut’, so to speak - the attempt to robustly define all things instead of intuitive understanding was, in the Cynic worldview, a fool’s undertaking! You know what a damn man is when you see it!
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cynie came from an Ancient greek word that means dog. that is why Cynics are all good boys.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski, Nowe Ateny, 1745