If you see a smelly philosopher you run, no matter what.

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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!

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  • 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!

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cynie came from an Ancient greek word that means dog. that is why Cynics are all good boys.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Horse: Everyone can see what a horse is

      Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski, Nowe Ateny, 1745

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