Greek Reporter

The Day Diogenes Humiliated Alexander the Great

Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic has become famous for his humiliating interaction with Alexander the Great when the two ...
The Boston Globe

Cynicism, the ancient Greek variety, just may be the cure for cynicism, the modern American kind

If anything can halt the spread of the ‘ism’ that robs us of hope, trust, and agency, it’s the philosophy that is the rhetorical equivalent of a dog’s bark. The defining “ism” of our age is neither ...
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Quote of the day by Diogenes the Cynic: 'We have two ears and one tongue so that we would' - lessons on active listening by Greek philosopher

Quote of the day by Diogenes the Cynic: A quote of the day serves as a daily spark of insight or reflection that can inspire, motivate, and shift how we see the world around us. These quotes often ...
NPR

Feeling cynical? Why science says 'hopeful skepticism' is a better option

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Navigating uncertainty. During uncertain times, many of us are drawn to cynicism, seeing humanity as inherently selfish, greedy and untrustworthy. In his latest ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Thoreau’s Cynicism, and Our Own

P erhaps it’s time to reassess the virtues of cynicism — that deep and abiding suspicion of all things organized. The rise of Donald Trump was, at least in part, founded on this suspicion, on the ...
The Atlantic

Philosophy Could Have Been a Lot More Fun

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 ...
Psychology Today

Diogenes the Cynic: A Socrates Gone Mad?

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 ...