In the second century A.D. at the city of Oinoanda, the philosopher Diogenes inscribed his works on the wall of a stoa, or portico, in a public square.(Martin Bachmann) In the winter of 1884 ...

Cynical philosophy insists on the fact that only virtue is the true good itself, and that moral excellence suffices to make a person happy. The Cynics, mostly embodied by figures like Diogenes and ...