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Diogenes sounds like a wise-cracking egotist, drunk on virtue. Is that really so rare?
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
Diogenes sounds like a wise-cracking egotist, drunk on virtue. Is that really so rare?
- kwhitefoot 11y agoSurely part of the point is that he was not bowing to arbitrary authority and was getting away with it. Which perhaps says something about the Greek attitude to philosophers. Of course Alexander was taught by Aristotle so perhaps he had a soft spot for philosophers.