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The Cynic Philosophers: Diogenes to Jesus
Unless you've been living in a jar, you've probably heard of the famously eccentric philosopher Diogenes, one of the founders of the Cynical school of philosophy. He took the teachings of Socrates to the absolute extreme, living like a dog which has neither possessions nor any intention to follow social norms. But he was not the first philosopher to champion the Cynic lifestyle, and certainly not the last.
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Sources:
iep.utm.edu/cynics/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ancient/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chreia
www.worldhistory.org/Crates_of_Thebes/
iep.utm.edu/antisthenes/
www.academia.edu/35317849/B_Lang_Jesus_among_the_Philosophers_The_Cynic_Connection_Explored_and_Affirmed_with_a_Note_on_Philos_Jewish_Cynic_Philosophy_In_Anders_K_Petersen_et_al_eds_Religio_Philosophical_Discourses_in_the_Mediterranean_World_Leiden_Brill_2017_187_218
The History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling
00:00 Introduction
02:36 Hellenistic Philosophy
05:51 Antisthenes
10:49 Diogenes
17:34 Crates & Hipparchia
21:42 The Influence of Cynicism
22:32 Comparing Jesus and the Cynics
32:15 Hellenistic Judaism
35:19 Jesus & Hellenism
37:39 St Paul & The Early Church Fathers
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Komentáře

  • @darillus1
    @darillus1 Před 6 dny

    teachers today, also expect to get paid, so shameful!

  • @tomato1040
    @tomato1040 Před 7 dny

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  • @chrisbowman3254
    @chrisbowman3254 Před 8 dny

    5:53 of enjoyment of women and young boys??

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 8 dny

      It may make us uncomfortable today, but pederasty was a common and socially accepted practice in ancient Greece: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece While there was a decent age gap in these relationships, "young boys" in this case means teenager, as the average age of an Eronemos was around 14-18. This should not surprise us considering the fact that girls were also traditionally married off around the age of 14-16.

  • @TopGunOptionsTrading
    @TopGunOptionsTrading Před 11 dny

    Check out the Immortality Key They did psychedelics If you die before you die, you will never die

  • @darillus1
    @darillus1 Před 21 dnem

    very well explained

  • @darillus1
    @darillus1 Před 21 dnem

    excellently executed and presented, I've been looking for a good coverage on the cynic philosophers, this one hit the nail on the head, well done

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 21 dnem

      Thank you and thanks for watching! :)

  • @oldindianchief9403
    @oldindianchief9403 Před 21 dnem

    Good choice going with the ssl interface.

  • @adrianthomas1473
    @adrianthomas1473 Před 21 dnem

    Very nice presentation - thank you.

  • @kosmicwizard
    @kosmicwizard Před 23 dny

    Amazing! Linear Christianity is such an unsatisfactory replacement for these rites. And pure science is even worse. Look at how the modern western world is, no community, no unity. I hope soon we can make new mystery cults and bring people back together again.

  • @Mark-ji8wc
    @Mark-ji8wc Před 23 dny

    I’ve watched this video several times and it’s one of my favorites of yours. Keep up the good work.

  • @MonosProsMonos
    @MonosProsMonos Před 24 dny

    You have a great channel. Thank you for taking the time to make your videos.

  • @jussikankinen9409
    @jussikankinen9409 Před 25 dny

    Greta great cynic

  • @jussikankinen9409
    @jussikankinen9409 Před 25 dny

    Helping the poor is was jesus idea

  • @jayk8756
    @jayk8756 Před 28 dny

    Keep it up man this is the type of content CZcams should be used for

  • @IamGrief887
    @IamGrief887 Před 28 dny

    I would posit that Hamashiach is a stoic with cynical predispositions. John the Baptist though… That man was a cynic to the bone.

  • @Fyrverk
    @Fyrverk Před měsícem

    The dog-sage teaching the way of the dog

  • @tomcoolinmiami
    @tomcoolinmiami Před měsícem

    Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist, who wore camel hair cloak and ate wild honey. Sounds like a cynical character to me. This is a great video. I think it would be improved by a discussion of the nature and influence of John the Baptist.

  • @ronniegammon8056
    @ronniegammon8056 Před měsícem

    🎉hi I'm Nicolette ambrosia chavez

  • @herglowup.honestlyspeaking

    DN modern day slavery

  • @michaelmcclure3383
    @michaelmcclure3383 Před měsícem

    Thats true, Advaita Vedanta also says nothing is.. or no thing has any existence of its own. There is therefore no independently existing world, just an appearance in consciousness. All is only Brahman and thou art that. Schopenhauer resolved this Kantian unknowabilty of the thing is itself by simply pointing to its non objective nature as Will.. or Self. Hume couldn't find any objective self in any of his experience, that's because the Self is not itself an object of knowledge, but the subject itself and that is known actually, but not in the same way one knows an apple... this is clearly extrapolated in the Vedantic discrimination between the seer and the seen (Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka). Regarding the silly ongoing debate ahout Parmenides and Heraclitus. I think a Vedantic metaphor makes it clear, that of the ocean and the waves, currents and so on. In the ocean everything is in constant flux and no wave has any independent existence, but isn't it all just water and nothing else... just like the One.. or as Vedanta might say..one without a second. Hence, even though appearances seem to be in constant flux, nothing of the fundamental nature of being ever changes.

  • @SpiciestBee
    @SpiciestBee Před měsícem

    I really like your channel 😊

  • @FlamenDia1is
    @FlamenDia1is Před měsícem

    If you listen to an audio recording of the dialogues; there are many such on CZcams…. You really see why people could not stand him. It’s one thing to read his questions, it’s another to hear them…. Even in translation

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před měsícem

      Absolutely, he definitely comes off as a pretentious know it all in the dialogues :P Thanks for watching!

  • @johnrobinson5156
    @johnrobinson5156 Před měsícem

    The homeless on streets of California live like that... but they are on Fentanyl and Meth

  • @mrwetcloth4571
    @mrwetcloth4571 Před měsícem

    Thank you brother 🙏

  • @tiverson888
    @tiverson888 Před měsícem

    Fantastic video, love the art too... very enjoyable to watch

  • @lievenyperman9363
    @lievenyperman9363 Před 2 měsíci

    Very interesting video which I already know I'll often revisit. Thank you for the great work and research that must have gone into it.

  • @Joao-id4dn
    @Joao-id4dn Před 2 měsíci

    it seems Socrates actually wanted to die, he knew he had a way out but chose instead to challenge the establishment, knowing he would not be forgiven for that

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 2 měsíci

      That definitely seems to be the case, thanks for watching!

  • @NathanDudani
    @NathanDudani Před 2 měsíci

    History of ideas lol

  • @mikerutecky7531
    @mikerutecky7531 Před 3 měsíci

    im a cynic full blooded 42 y old man ......

  • @sammy-whirl8500
    @sammy-whirl8500 Před 3 měsíci

    He should have got a lawyer

  • @gazz9971
    @gazz9971 Před 3 měsíci

    awesome :)

  • @emrey5528
    @emrey5528 Před 3 měsíci

    This channel is 🔥

  • @hblegal8309
    @hblegal8309 Před 3 měsíci

    Well done!! Thanks

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    @gemmyg8884 Před 3 měsíci

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    @gemmyg8884 Před 3 měsíci

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  • @andygeez6048
    @andygeez6048 Před 3 měsíci

    im so glad youtube is a thing, I needed to read the entire thing for a college class but I have so much trouble reading long books, so I needed a few good summaries

  • @henrydennis6314
    @henrydennis6314 Před 3 měsíci

    Stunning video, thank you and very informative

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 3 měsíci

      You're too kind :) Thanks for watching!

  • @jo69ma
    @jo69ma Před 3 měsíci

    Hassan-i Sabbah(1054 - June 12, 1124), the Iranian leader of the order of assassins claimed that “nothing is true and everything is permitted” and that the entire QURAN and the SHARIA LAW was a Noble Lie. Well, this obviously meant to Sabbah that Allah was an Elusive God and that it was Ok to “PLUNDER” their enemies appropriately. No wonder humanity has been plundering and creating Wars before Biblical times to create their personal Paradise and delineate their territory over time by threats, intimidations, and coercion. No wonder some consumers can’t afford to pay inflated rent anymore and are forced to migrate to other countries to keep on “Plundering, legally,” in order to control profits.

  • @brocktonma.1816
    @brocktonma.1816 Před 3 měsíci

    Huh?

  • @cornucopiaofcool2144
    @cornucopiaofcool2144 Před 3 měsíci

    Masters NEED Slaves SLAVES don't need Masters but Humans LOVE Hierarchy just like Monkeys. The Indus Valley Civilization seems to be the closet to organized anarchy of antiquity. Everyone had indoor plumbing and Water and the society was set up for self starters.

  • @ThefrenziedMercury
    @ThefrenziedMercury Před 3 měsíci

    Why did you call it "evolution"?

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 3 měsíci

      The idea is that Greek beliefs about the afterlife changed from the dreary homeric view to the mystical Orphic view (which was thought to be imported into Greece from abroad), which then in turn inspired Christian beliefs about the afterlife. This idea found a good deal of acceptance from scholars in the 19th - early 20th century, but as the video explains modern scholarship has shown that it's not as simple as scholars in the past made it out to be. Judeo-Christian beliefs about the afterlife did develop overtime and were inspired by the Greeks, which I talk about in the last section of the video, but the idea that it came from some coherent Orphic religion from abroad is false.

  • @SmokedCig
    @SmokedCig Před 3 měsíci

    Video was fantastic! Glad to see you back!

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 3 měsíci

      Glad you enjoyed the video :) Thanks for watching!

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    @RichardGardee-eq9qi Před 3 měsíci

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  • @RichardGardee-eq9qi
    @RichardGardee-eq9qi Před 3 měsíci

    Joseph the Bible: is mentioned there others of biblical prophecy, proportion.ALSO😮❤😊

  • @borisgerritsen6820
    @borisgerritsen6820 Před 3 měsíci

    Just started getting into philosophy books, I finished it, and was genuinely suprised he died. What a plot twist;)

  • @ChrisHASSELBECK
    @ChrisHASSELBECK Před 3 měsíci

    This is an amazing example of what Jesus actually was . . And where is style came from , . Still the question is , was the bible partly false in not the way to live life but did Moses actually talk to God himself, and what happened to jesus body in the tomb . . Spiritually speaking do some beings as jesus and some saint hood types etc never become part of the universes energy but stays within a spiritual world full of God like beings ?

  • @andychap6283
    @andychap6283 Před 3 měsíci

    Love this channel and always glad to see a new upload. Videos like these always make me think of the ancient world in a way I dont usually. Really interesting to see how ideas could spread from region to region

  • @lennah3874
    @lennah3874 Před 3 měsíci

    Awesome video! Can't wait for more!

  • @Embassy_of_Jupiter
    @Embassy_of_Jupiter Před 3 měsíci

    Jesus learned it in India

    • @ChrisHASSELBECK
      @ChrisHASSELBECK Před 3 měsíci

      I just learned he traveled there

    • @NOTHINGNEWYT
      @NOTHINGNEWYT Před 3 měsíci

      @@ChrisHASSELBECK There is no evidence Jesus ever visited India, this is a myth: czcams.com/video/3Cqhcly_mXM/video.htmlsi=-7Ahr3uI8wx9m0Ck

    • @michaelmcclure3383
      @michaelmcclure3383 Před měsícem

      Possibly more indirectly through exposure to Hellenistic culture that shares much in common with the vedic

  • @MandyMoorehol
    @MandyMoorehol Před 3 měsíci

    Diogenes washing veggies in the river was the first meme

    • @lievenyperman9363
      @lievenyperman9363 Před 2 měsíci

      He was also the first troll, trolling Plato and Alexander. ;)

    • @MandyMoorehol
      @MandyMoorehol Před 2 měsíci

      @@lievenyperman9363 he came from a long line of trolls.