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-====== Antisthenes of Athens ====== +====== Antisthenes of Athens Diogenes Laertius, Book 6 §103-105 =====
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 <blockquote>103. Such are the lives of the several Cynics. But we will go on to append the doctrines which they held in common – if, that is, we decide that Cynicism is really a philosophy, and not, as some maintain, just a way of life. They are content then, like Ariston of Chios, to do away with the subjects of Logic and Physics and to devote their whole attention to Ethics. And what some assert of Socrates, Diocles records of Diogenes, representing him as saying: "We must inquire into <blockquote>103. Such are the lives of the several Cynics. But we will go on to append the doctrines which they held in common – if, that is, we decide that Cynicism is really a philosophy, and not, as some maintain, just a way of life. They are content then, like Ariston of Chios, to do away with the subjects of Logic and Physics and to devote their whole attention to Ethics. And what some assert of Socrates, Diocles records of Diogenes, representing him as saying: "We must inquire into
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 So much, then, for the Cynics. We must now pass on to the Stoics, whose founder was Zeno, a disciple of Crates. So much, then, for the Cynics. We must now pass on to the Stoics, whose founder was Zeno, a disciple of Crates.
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 +Source: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers  (1925) by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks. A Loeb Classical Library edition; volume 1 published 1925; volume 2 published 1925. WikiSource.\\
 [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/|Source]]</blockquote> [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/|Source]]</blockquote>
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