Biography Diogenes

Diogenes (414 BC Chr. – 323 BC Chr.) From Sinop – a cynic, a pupil of Antisthenes. Father was a money-changer, and a counterfeiter, a son, participant in the enterprises father, had to leave his native city, came to Athens, he heard talk of Antisthenes and was captivated by them.

Antisthenes considered himself a follower of Socrates, but Socrates understood the one-sided: the purpose of life seen in virtue, and virtue – in asceticism. DA did not add anything to that principle and remarkable not so much teaching, how many lives, in which he conveyed to the extreme principles of his school.

The antiquity of life D. izukrasila various episodes in which it is drawn character, but which in all probability, composed: Such, for example., Meeting with D. Alexander the Great and celebrated its response to the king. Assuming that a virtue is temperance, in the absence of needs and in accordance with nature, life, AD brought his asceticism to the extreme, very unaesthetic, resulting in the nickname: o cuwn – "dog". Being quite consistent; D. denied, along with wealth and honors, and also science, and private property, and marriage.

Plato dubbed D. "frenzied Socrates." Stoicism, largely stood under the influence of cynics, copied, however, his ideal of a sage rather with Socrates, than with DD died in Corinth, where he was buried with great pomp. The letters extant under his name, false, as demonstrated Buassonad. His pupils are Stilpon Megara, Onesikrat satellite, Alexander of Macedon, and others about him, see Delaunay, "De cynismo, Al praecipue de Antisthene Diogene et Cratele" (par. 1831) and Zeiler, "Geschichte d. Philos. D. Griechen "(4 th ed.).