Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato, who once called him "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native Sinope for having defaced its coinage, Diogenes moved to ...

WisdomTalks Unlock the timeless wisdom of Diogenes and transform your life with these powerful lessons. Dive into the world of philosophy with us as we explore insights from stoicism, existential ...

On a recent night out in New York City, I encountered the reincarnation of an ancient Greek philosopher. Diogenes of Sinope — a founding figure in the school of philosophy known as Cynicism — was born ...

What does a smart-mouthed character on a television cartoon series have to do with a Greek philosopher who died around 2,300 years ago? Maybe a philosophical outlook, says Greg Salyer, an associate ...

AT FIRST SIGHT THE TITLE “Anarchism in Greek Philosophy” may seem somewhat of a contradiction. Our attitudes towards Hellenism, conditioned as they are by nineteenth century romanticism, have ...

In the spring of 2000, I was finishing my Ph.D. in philosophy at Emory University. The obvious path was to drift into a full-time position at a decent institution, work my dissertation into a book, ...