“If anyone wants to buy a boss, there is one available here!” In the context of that situation where Diogenes was sold as a slave, this is the most badass line that I’ve heard in my life. Diogenes was so epic that even slavery did not break him.
Diogenes was awake! I have never before heard such profound philosophical thoughts. Easy to comprehend. I'm a fan! I believe him to be Honest, accurate, truthful. , and unbiased. He was a real Human Being! A independent thinker! I like this philosopher a great deal.
Yes, I did think you dive into Socrates was a trip, albeit a Based one. That's why I'm all aboard the hype train for your potential 16-hour modernized version of Plato's Republic.
I appreciate this. I've been recently on a philosophy binge and am captivated by the life of The Dog. Every other video says the exact same thing and it gets boring searching for new information. This is the best video I've seen so far. Plus the others are like 5-15 minutes long while all saying the same. I'm definitely subscribing.
The only litte thing I ask you to is to give us the opportunity to listen to audiobooks from your voice. Thanks for all your job so far and keep it up!
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He definitely knew he was friends with the Gods judging by his confidence. He also was pretty wise to the point of cynicism. But he displayed physical and mental discipline to the degree that he was pushed due to his circumstances under his Friend of the gods status. What intrigued me was how he knew who he should be sold to and why with one glance!
It is difficult to separate what Diogenes of Sinope actually said and did from what has been attributed to him by ancient writers. But one thing is certain: given the characteristics of his thinking, Diogenes would probably not be offended by hearing all the absurd situations in which, acting or speaking in an apparently absurd manner, he supposedly would ironically restore normalcy. Diogenes makes us laugh or think. But sometimes he makes us think and laugh. Like Socrates, Diogenes of Sinope did not try to create a system, nor did he record his thoughts in the methodical manner of Plato. Posterity did not interest him. Diogenes lived in the present moment. The act of thinking had momentary importance for him. This explains the development of a method that can be considered perforating: Diogenes perforated what for others seemed to be reality, but was nothing more than illusion or nonsense. He gained notoriety and became a famous character which can be considered quite an achievement.
The tinkering Diogenes and his father did was actually pretty common back in those days; what they would do is just peel the outer layers of the coin's edge and then forge new coins with all the peelings, the coin would seem exactly the same depending on craftmanship and you would create new counterfeited coins.
Ever since I came across socrates, I was hooked. I LOVE philosophy videos done right and how you go about it is so well done. For that I subscribed to you.👍 Love to see more in the future!
Try reading the New Testament,Covenant,Commandment but it will only make sense to those ho have ears to hear. You can no more change your God given gender than you can change the climate of this or any planet. You are not God's. God sent his son Yeshua to warn us about the wonderful terrible planet we live on that gets RESET every 12,000 years when the precession of our orbit eclipses crosses through the nucleus of our Sun's electromagnetic gravitational equator for a 1,000 years. Mystery of the 7 crossings of our Star's magnetic equator. 5 crossings loaves done and 2 fish crossings to go in this rotation of the galactic bulge until perigee. Galactic Milankovitch cycles eccentricity. We have already had the signs of Jonah Tsunami's. Lot's fire/lightning/EMP's are heating up and Noah's tidal wave floods won't be pulled out & around the planet by the new moon until the conjunction of Mercury & Venus in 2033 & every 40 years thereafter for the millennium it takes to eclipse the Sun's nucleus separating the two energies. The Gobekli tepe stones are crying out just like Yeshua said they would.
I am a high functioning Autistic who, as a child, was very precocious and intelligent so that phrase - "You have an answer for everything!" - was common in my home regarding me ... and usually was followed by a beating. Good times! Really miss it. Oh, wait, as an odd person I ... oh, who cares, eh?
@@TheLegendaryLore Hey, same treatment from people as an adult. As they say "there is no rest for the autistic." Thank you for your reply and kind words. From my pov and experience people are rubbish and life is a shit sandwich and it is always lunch time. Cheers!
A cinematic stoic universe would be so valuable today. Imagine the insight, lessons, laughs and general wonder of Ancient Greece done right showing the stories of the top stoics and their relationships to one another.
A remarkable man and a remarkable intellect…I love that he would have nothing to do with Plato’s silly abstractions. He deserves to be far better known. Video shared on my Twitter feed.
go back to watching the shadows on the wall tv, radio, papers. You can no more change your God given gender than you can change the climate of this or any planet. You are not God's. God sent his son Yeshua to warn us about the wonderful terrible planet we live on that gets RESET every 12,000 years when the precession of our orbit eclipses crosses through the nucleus of our Sun's electromagnetic gravitational equator for a 1,000 years. Mystery of the 7 crossings of our Star's magnetic equator. 5 crossings loaves done and 2 fish crossings to go in this rotation of the galactic bulge until perigee. Galactic Milankovitch cycles eccentricity. We have already had the signs of Jonah Tsunami's. Lot's fire/lightning/EMP's are heating up and Noah's tidal wave floods won't be pulled out & around the planet by the new moon until the conjunction of Mercury & Venus in 2033 & every 40 years thereafter for the millennium it takes to eclipse the Sun's nucleus separating the two energies. The Gobekli tepe stones are crying out just like Yeshua said they would.
I remember doing history when I was in School as a Greek student in the 80s he was my favourite philosopher. I kept these Greek books and even today in Greek it still is funny reading his statements. Perhaps most is lost in translation and the meanings for the application of the moment. ❤
Love your voice, and love all the stories about Diogenes. I'd only heard a couple of things about him before watching this video, mainly around his famed meeting with Alexander, but now I have so much more info on what he was really like.
Alexander the Great asked Diogenes why he was looking around on the ground after Alexander's father, King Philip II had died. "I'm looking for the bones of your father, but I can't distinguish them from the bones of slaves." Alexander laughed.
I like Plato and I like Diogenes, I like Euclid, I like socrate, I like Heraclitus, but truly… a man that doesn’t care would only speak when he knows he is right but more importantly knows he could be wrong
It’s sort of easy (relatively) to be an itinerant, possessionless wandering philosopher in balmy Greece. Anywhere further north he wouldn’t have survived his first winter, as far as I know he never discussed it but I’d like to know his opinion. Maybe it’d just be “why not walk south, what better do you have to do?” but it would still be interesting to know
I liked the way it was worded when I heard it. The way I heard it, Alexander says "I'll grant you anything you ask for." "I ask you to stand aside. You're blocking my sun." I also heard he was kind of like a vagrant; I guess you'd call it today. And when people extold the value of a hard days work he'd say "Why work?" His minimalism was an extension of his displeasure with hard work. You didn't quite get to that point. And it could be that I'm the victim of misinformation. I'm not saying that is how it is. It's just a charming aspect of his personality and maybe that's why it's that way. Maybe it's too charming to resist. But that's how I heard the story. Who knows what really happened all those hundreds of years ago?
Afaik what he really said in old greek writings was „illuminate me, or get out of my sun“ meaning, tell me something i dont already know, or stop bothering me.
I studied philosophy at Yale in the 1960s. You should hve presented this lecture there, then. Quite remarkable. They never even told me Mr. Diogenes existed but a third rate philosoteach had us read Mr. Socrates as presented by his PR man Mr. Plato. I have learned a lot from this presentation. I once knew a great intellectual who drank the Zelensky Kool-Ade but before tha he seemed wise. He said: "Shakespeare lived an ordinary live just like you. Let us pursue our work together as peers." I neer met Diogenes but I did know John Wild. I nevver liked Mr. Socrates but now I like Mr. Diogenes less then before for knowing more about him. Now let us decontruct famousmen and ur fathers who were before us! All the semiotic history of mankind of raw material for our own creative play. RRose Selavy.
This is awesome. L'chaim. I'll teach you some Aramaic. It's the slang of Hebrew. Schlama means peace. Malkuth means heaven. Hubba means love. Hubba to you and yours.
He didn't live in a wooden barrel.....he lived in a giant stone urn of the Temple of Cybele..... I've seen such temple stone urns. They're about the size of a bus shelter.
"One day, when Plato was on a morning walk by the side of the sea, he saw a man. It was early in the morning, a little dark - the sun had not risen yet. He could not figure out who the man was. This man was Diogenes and in a spoon he was bringing…He would go to the ocean, take the water in the spoon - he had made a small hole in the sand - pour the water into the sand, and then go back. Plato, standing there, saw him doing it. He looked like a madman. For a moment he thought, “I should not interfere.” But such is the mind - it becomes curious: “Maybe he is not mad; perhaps he is doing something meaningful and I am not aware of it. And what is wrong if I ask him?” So he said, “Please forgive me for interrupting. I don’t want to interrupt you - you may be involved in some great work - but what is going on?” Diogenes said, “I am trying to empty the ocean.” Plato said, “My God, with this teaspoon?” And then the sun was rising and Diogenes started laughing and said, “Plato, what else are you doing?” Then Plato recognized Diogenes. He used to live naked, but that day he was covered with a cloth, just to hide himself, so Plato would not know him at first. Otherwise he might not have interrupted. Plato was simply stunned, he could not answer. Diogenes said, “That’s what you are trying to do. Your mind is nothing but a teaspoon and with it you are trying to exhaust the oceanic existence. What I am doing is just to remind you…I know it is not possible. You should also remember that what you are doing is impossible." Diogenes is one of the most loved human beings, as far as I am concerned. As far as the world is concerned, he is one of those who are destined to be condemned for their behavior, for their ideas. And Diogenes particularly, because he is so unique. It is said of Diogenes, a man of the same caliber as Bodhidharma …. If they had met, it would have been a great meeting. Diogenes was in Greece. He lived naked; he had such a beautiful body that to hide it behind clothes would have been a crime. It is perfectly good to hide an ugly body behind clothes but a beautiful body needs to be available for anybody who wants to see the beauty, the proportion. Diogenes was one of the most beautiful men. Even when Alexander the Great met him, he felt a little embarrassed - although he was a world conqueror, compared to Diogenes he was utterly poor. I am reminded of Diogenes, a beautiful Greek philosopher, mystic - and a mystic of a rare quality. He was a contemporary of Aristotle, and he was as much against Aristotle as I am, so I have a certain friendship with Diogenes. Aristotle defined man as an animal who walks on two legs. What did Diogenes do? He caught one animal - and there are many animals who walk on two legs, but they have feathers also, they can fly also - a peacock. He took out all the feathers - because men have no feathers. Take out all the feathers of the peacock… the peacock walks on two legs. And he sent the peacock to Aristotle with the message: “Please receive the gift of a human being." I am reminded of Diogenes. I love this fellow Diogenes for the simple reason that he does not claim any authority from God. He does not give any orders and commandments and disciplines to others. He used to live naked - not for any religious reasons, not to get to heaven; he was not concerned about heaven and hell at all. He lived naked, because, he said, “That’s how I was born. Nature wants me to be this way. Why should I be otherwise? I am going to be just natural.”
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. - Nietzsche Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. - Voltaire The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who be mastered by no one. - Kahlil Gibran Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde A master to known, a slave to one... or I have only one counsel for you - be master. Lao Tzu Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master. You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you. - Charles E. Popplestone The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place. - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching - Tao Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - Sir James Barrie (1860-1937) Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. - Leo Buscaglia Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. - Jane Jacobs The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Excellence always sells. - Earl Nightingale Success doesn't follow money, Money chases after success. Feeling ~ Free‽ ™ OR Freely loving LIFE for a living ?! On this point We must be clear, You are either in control of your destiny or you are not. Free or Slave‽ When words lose meaning, We lose our own will to power We lose our freedom.
Where are you getting your sources from? What texts or translations from "Lives and Opinions from Eminent Philosophers" are you distilling this from? If you could provide further study on his philosophies that would be greatly appreciated.
I reckon Plato had a point about Diogenes being arrogant and I also disagree with a lot of his statements but I think he’s still valid to learn about etc The constant remarks about so called good looking people tends to make me think he’s a bit jealous of such as well because good looking people are aware of what he’s saying generally so it’s like spamming to my mind anyway His simpleton - I learnt from children anecdotes border on dumb and dumber skits he seems to assure himself of victory by association where as children are ever present in human societies etc The stories of eating in public being taboo is kind of eccentric people don’t normally do it because they generally have preferred eating places like dining rooms etc
I both respect and admire, and am horrified by this man, which is probably what he was looking for on some levels. His confrontational manner just got people thinking.
Zizek would have us belive that everyone today is a cynic. While there may be a general cynicism within the zeitgeist, none are as pure as the cynicism of Diogenes. His lived cynicism is an example to us all that societies are a socail construct of contradictions to our deeper understanding of value, worth, and being. Diogenes is easy to like because he reminds us that were are all just hairless apes parncing around in bejewelled garments as if the clothes make the man out of the ape.
It was time for Alexander to conquer the world he met Aristotle and said I m going to conquer the world what I bring for you. Aristotle said their were land having so much wealth. Alexander said I'll brought all the wealth gold silver diamond etc. from that land. Aristotle said you can't loot that land coz their wealth are not gold silver diamond etc. It's impossible to conquer them. Aristotle said to Alexander send me a sage scholar in Vedas, Upanishads,Gita etc. After tie-up with Persian king, Alexander entered into that richest land as his mentor Aristotle told about "that could not be conquered". Alexander remember his mentor's demand from that land 'A Sage'. The sage, he met on bank of satluj river name was Dandayan (in the west he got famous by name Dionysus). Dandayan told, you won't reached to your mother land but I would reach only because your mentor Aristotle called me. Alexander killed by poisonous arrow of the king of that land. Dandayan of East also known as Dionysus of West.
Diogenes was a reaction to the social ego of the Greek City State 'Cosmopolitan Elitism' of the time. That same ego is what lead to their fall to One Eyed Phil...who they believed was just a brutish bumpkin. This perhaps explains Diogenes appreciative response when brought before him. The context had its start with Socrates, who, rightfully, was condemned to death for corrupting the Elite youth with Sophism...which unraveled the unity of Greek identity through Relativity and Subjectivism. 40 years later, these Elite youth were the Elite leaders, the Greek Cities became their own bubbles, Laws were changed, such as a decree that Treason was no longer a chargeable offense, and that new Laws were best determined by expert committee. They were becoming weak, indulgent and vain. This is Diogenes environment, and this is what allowed Phil to pick each Greek City State off, one by one. Does any of this sound familiar? Are not the Elites of today trying to silence the Diogenes' of today? Are they not Cosmopolitan, in a bubble, disdainful of the unsophisticated, uneducated classes below them? Do they not press for Policy and Law to be more informed by 'experts' than through democratic methods? We are creatures of habit...and that does not exempt the whole of us, a mass of one mind.
Does anyone else find some similarities between Diogenes and Tehol Beddict from the Malazan lore? I swear Diogenes must have been an inspiration for Steven Eriksen
