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"Diogenes of Sinope, on the Black Sea coast, who died 320 BCE, was the founder and most famous of the Cynics , a non-School embracing both asceticism and a kind of moral nihilism. He reportedly believed that virtue (the goal of most Greek philosophers but an irrelevance to consumer-societies) could be attained only by fighting hypocrisy, greed and corruption - i.e. conventional morality. He is famously said to have gone around Athens with a lantern by day, vainly looking for an honest man. He would have agreed with Khayyam that society is merely knots of people on puppet-strings of systems of belief. It is likely that he disdained to write any of his ideas down. In any event, all our information comes (like our information on Jesus of Galilee) second-hand at best."—Dissident Editions Diogenes of Sinope > https://beyond-the-pale.co.uk/diogenes.htm #Cynics #Diogenes_of_Sinope #autonomy #asceticism #philosophy #history #moral_epigram #moral_nihilism #Antisthenes #Crates #Menedemus #Menippus #Greeks against #comfort #dependence #artefacts #governmentt #property #marriage #religion #Greece