The Philosopher who Hated Everyone | Diogenes the Cynic

Few Philosophers have gone down in history quite like Diogenes the Cynic. He was a rebel, a vagabond, a beggar, and a hero. And today we will explore his deeply critical philosophy to see what lessons it can teach us about our own lives.

00:00 Diogenes the Cynic
01:02 Renunciation
05:57 The Anti-Society Man
10:54 Shamelessness
15:35 The Critical Instinct
19:53 Practice and Preaching

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One of my favorite stories of Diogenes is when he is using a bowl to drink water and then sees a little boy drinking from his hands. Upon witnessing the boy do this he shatters his bowl and cries "what a fool i have been!"

[kintsuki]

Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothong to lose and Diogenses avoided having anything to lose.

[miguelpereira]

Love him or hate him, Diogenes lived what he preached and no one can take that away from him

[giades]

One of the many insane Diogenes stories: to challenge him intellectually and his choice living in ultimate poverty, a rich greek invited him to his luxurious home . So he shows him around his beautiful house boasting to him. In the end Diogenes spits on the rich mans face saying "Sorry but with all this beauty around me, i couldn't find of a better place to spit ". Diogenes was really something else.

[entropy]

Diogenes is like that friend that's technically not wrong, but definitely think twice before you introduce him to your other friends.

[ElonMuskrat-myjy]

"If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes."
"If I were not Diogenes, I would also want to be Diogenes."

[sasi]

*How to respond when someone asks what do you do for a living:*
*being an unemployed, homeless, loser* ❌️
*being a discipline of diogenes* ✅️

[miguelpereira]

Can I just say that I appreciate the fact this video doesnt have some faux emotional piano background music or something like that? He lets his charisma and ideas carry the video and it works brilliantly

[curtissjamesd]

He is one of my favorite philosophers, I don't universally agree with him but he was resolute and consistent.

[ceremonyofinnocence]

Feeling guilt (temporarily) can be instructive, but long lasting shame is toxic and serves no good purpose. It’s a malfunction of the limbic system stored as trauma.

[ashleynagawa]

Authenticity comes with a price that most of us are not willing pay. You can’t truly divorce yourself from what other people think as you would lose their validation.
Sometimes you just wish you didn’t care like Diaogenes

[anarcxh]

Diogenes, the one dude that made Alexander the great almost want to be him 🔥

[CookiePieMonster]

Diogenes was great. Basically showed society that 99% of our daily woes and troubles are almost entirely self made. And society basically agreed, but continued on anyway. A shame really.

[negatron]

If you can take from a man he is not free, but once you take everything from him. He is free again.

[Justjoey]

“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” -Diogenes

[erroneous]

My favorite of the classical philosophers. “You live like a dog sir”, proceeds to piss on man’s foot.

[Kyoz]

If you have no wealth, nobody can steal from you. Imagine the pain of sacrificing years of your life working in the hot sun when you could be having fun only to have it all taken from you by the government or an angry ex.

Your home can be burnt down because you looked at the wrong person funny.

Your kids can be used as threats.

The more detached you are, the less you have to worry about losing. And the more you can focus on savoring the good. Like the taste of your food, the feeling of the wind rustling your hair and face, the way your never alone even on a dark midnight walk as the birds are all around you, or just revel internally at what you have become throughout your life.

And if you are as skilled as Diogenes, then you could find work if you tried, so he is not as afraid of not being able to find food as someone without his skills. He just doesn't do it unless he has too.

[krumpliii]

Diogenes would be fun at (certain) parties.

[kingkhrysesxiii]

I'm houseless for many of the exact philosophical thoughts I'd concluded on my own, and had no idea this guy existed until semi-recently. I love that I feel understood, or better said perhaps, I'm glad I deeply understand his philosophical views. The cost of freedom is comfort.

[Amipotsophspond]

"Their is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool." And we all know what finger!