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Cynics (Häftad)
avWilliam D. Desmond
ISBN: 9780520258617 - UTGIVEN: 200810Far from being pessimistic or nihilistic, as modern uses of the term "cynic" suggest, the ancient Cynics were astonishingly optimistic regarding human nature. They believed that if one simplified one's life--giving up all unnecessary possessions, desires, and ideas--and lived in the moment as much a[...]
Cynics (Häftad)
avWilliam D. Desmond
ISBN: 9781844651290 - UTGIVEN: 2008-08Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of Christianity[...]
