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What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.
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Diogenes of Sinope was born around 412 to 404 BC and died in 323. Cynics were highly influential in both Greece and Imperial Rome and endured until the 5th century AD.
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This a great collection of stories from the Cynic school of philosophers. Cynics were mainly about living a simple life free from material desire and in this regard has some parallels with Buddhism and probably early Christianity as well. It's hard to say how much of this is apocryphal - Diogenes' exploits especially appear always to be shrouded in doubt. His roaming the streets of Athens with a lantern claiming to be searching for a (true/honest) man really resonates and has inspired many works of art. There are other Cynics, but Diogenes is the one that I find the most interesting and this short book is worth reading just to learn more about him.
It's a shame that there isn't more written works from the Cynics, as many of their beliefs are relevant in modern society. For Diogenes at least, creating a vast canon of written work clearly was not as important as actually living his philosophy. He could probably be described as Anti-Academic and anti-Establishment - strata certainly represented by Plato. What I wouldn't give to be there in a Plato lecture with Diogenes loudly eating and interrupting; Plato's reaction would be priceless.
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