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 Imperial period ⓘ
linked to: Roman Empire
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 ⓘ
Roman Stoics ⓘ
linked to: Late Stoa

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 ⓘ