Cynic movement

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The Cynic movement was an ancient Greek philosophical school that advocated living in accordance with nature through extreme simplicity, self-sufficiency, and rejection of conventional social values.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hellenistic philosophy
ancient Greek philosophical school
philosophical movement
associatedWithCity Athens
Thebes
characteristicSymbol the dog
continuedInto Roman Empire
surface form: Roman Imperial period
contrastsWith Aristotelianism
Platonism
coreDoctrine cultivate virtue as the only true good
indifference to fame and reputation
live in accordance with nature
practice extreme simplicity
practice frank speech
practice self-sufficiency
practice shamelessness regarding social conventions
reject conventional social values
reject luxury and material wealth
emergedInCentury 4th century BCE
ethicalFocus askesis
autarkeia
freedom from passion
virtue
etymology name derived from Greek word for dog
foundingFigure Antisthenes
hasOrigin ancient Greece
historicalPeriod Classical Greece
Hellenistic period
influenced early Christian moral criticism of wealth
influencedMovement Stoicism
influencedPhilosopher Epictetus
Late Stoa
surface form: Roman Stoics

Zeno of Citium
mainName Cynicism
opposes materialism
political ambition
social convention
traditional marriage norms
prominentFigure Bion of Borysthenes
Crates of Thebes
Demonax
Diogenes of Sinope
Hipparchia of Maroneia
Metrocles of Maroneia
Monimus of Syracuse
relatedConcept asceticism
cosmopolitanism
parrhesia
usesMethod provocation
public performance of philosophy
satire and ridicule

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Hipparchia of Maroneia movement Cynic movement