Diogenes as Hedonist
Maximus of Tyre describes Diogenes as a hedonist. "Pleasure led Diogenes into his tub. And if virtue accompanied him, why should pleasure be excluded? Diogenes enjoyed life in his tub, as Xerxes enjoyed Babylon... If you compare pleasure with pleasures, those of Diogenes are greater. The lives of others were filled with pleasures, but were everywhere mingled with grief… But the pleasures of Diogenes were free from lamentations, wailing, tears or grief… I will make bold to say that no one was ever more truly a lover of pleasure than Diogenes" (Diss. 3, 9).
Blogging Diogenes of Sinope by Farrand Sayre
The Cynics Referred to the Habits of Animals
Slump towards Animalism
Attitude of the Cynics Towards Pleasure
Happiness Did Not Exclude Pleasure
Short Road to Happiness or Short Cut to Virtue?
Despising Pleasure is Pleasurable
What is Virtue for a Cynic: Cats for Thievery
What is Virtue for a Cynic: Promiscuous Sexual Intercourse
Image: Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man By Jacob Jordaens
Source: Public Domain
do you know if diogenes ever find the one he was looking for with that ole lamp of his.......
Probably not.
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