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The Cynics: Diogenes and the Art of Living Without Shame
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive deep into the world of the Cynics, focusing on its most famous (and infamous) figure: Diogenes of Sinope. They explore his radical philosophy of living according to nature, his public acts of defiance (including his famous encounter with Alexander the Great), and how he embodied the Cynic ideals of autarkeia (self-sufficiency) and anaideia (shamelessness). The conversation also covers Diogenes' predecessors (Antisthenes) and successors (Crates of Thebes, who taught Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism), and the legacy of Cynic thought in later…
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