Antisthenes
Greek philosopher, founder of Cynicism (c.446-c.366 BCE) · Academics · Lived 445 BC to 365 BC · aged 80
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Something wrong?A student who switched from rhetoric to Socrates and never looked back. Antisthenes stripped ethics down to virtue and self-denial, hard enough that later generations called him the first Cynic.
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Antisthenes in Thomas Stanley History of Philosophy
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AntisthenesIn their own words 9
, It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.
Antisthenes ... was asked on one occasion what learning was the most necessary, and he replied, "To unlearn one's bad habits.
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
About this person
Antisthenes started around 446 BCE learning the art of persuasion under Gorgias, but Socrates pulled him in another direction entirely. He became a devoted follower and distilled the master's ethics into something sharper: live ascetically, live by virtue, shed everything else. That austerity - more severe than Socrates himself - marked him as something new. By the time he died around 366 BCE, later writers were pointing back to him as the fountainhead of Cynic philosophy, the school that would take his refusal of comfort and turn it into a way of life.
Academics born in the 450s BC 2
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