DIOGENES STATUE FREE

I recently came across a book by Professor Luis Navia of New York Institute of Technology, Diogenes the Critic: The War Against the World, which sheds some interesting light on this question.

DIOGENES STATUE FREE

Source: Wikipediaīrilliant philosopher, shameless exhibitionist, ragamuffin - take your pick, but before we concede to people like Schultz and dismiss the man, we have to ask the question, why is Diogenes still remembered some twenty-four hundred years after his death? Find great deals on Marble Statue of Antonio Demetino Diogenes Giclee Print at, with fast shipping, free returns, and custom framing. Whitewashed and holding the lamp of reason, a statue of the Sinop-born Greek philosopher Diogenes (412 to 323 BC) stands with his dog on a barrel in a car. You might be familiar with the image of a white-haired man carrying a lamp in daylight, searching for an honest man. Compared to Diogenes, Thoreau was pampered and tame. An alleged student of Antisthenes, Diogenes maintains his teachers asceticism and emphasis on ethics, but brings to these philosophical positions a dynamism. 26/jan/2016 - A modern statue of the Cynic philosopher Diogenes is located at the entrance to Sinope.

Find art you love and shop high-quality art prints, photographs, framed artworks and posters at. Known as “The Dog,” Diogenes lived in a tub, begged for food, and went barefoot, haranguing rich and poor alike for their pointless conformity, irrational behavior, and moral bankruptcy. Compare 50 hotels near Diogenes the Cynic Statue in Sinop using 267 real guest reviews. Marble Statue of Antonio Demetino Diogenes Giclee Print. In a New Yorker article last fall, Kathryn Schultz attacked the legacy of Henry David Thoreau, calling Walden’s author “pond scum” and dismissing as unrealistic any political vision built upon his “rugged individualism.” Based on her reaction to Thoreau, she’d likely recoil in horror from Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE), founder of the Cynic school of philosophy in ancient Greece. Sometimes known as the Herakles Epitrapezios, on the table, the original associated with a small bronze sculpture by Lysippos.

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