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The Living Philosophy of Diogenes the Cynic

When philosophy was living in an urn and masturbating in public

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Jul 21, 2021
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Diogenes of Sinope was a contemporary of Plato and Alexander the Great. He was famous for his radical philosophy that discarded status, possessions and the learning of books to get at the vital marrow of philosophy — the good life.

Diogenes was famous for living his philosophy in all its simplicity and coarseness. He didn’t care for the intellectual sea…

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