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| Topic | If you've become so cynical that you're convinced life is cheap... |
| CynicalZealot 01/23/21 5:39:04 PM #3 | Life only has value because we as a culture choose to subjectively assign value to it. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
| Topic | Would you rather be a Stoic or a Marxist? |
| CynicalZealot 11/13/20 9:56:19 AM #7 | wwinterj25 posted... I've no idea what this shit means and I'm not looking it up so meh. What makes it worse is that none of the words used to define the Greek schools of thought still mean what they used to mean. Stoics aren't really stoic, Epicureans aren't really epicurean, Cynics aren't... well, you know. Which I suppose makes my name doubly ironic, because Zealot doesn't really mean the same thing it used to, either. Zeus posted... Diogenes the Cynic was a cynic, not a stoic. Was kinda in his moniker. Yes, but as the article you posted even points out, one could easily see him as the inspiration for Stoicism, with the Stoic viewpoint being more of a refinement of Cynicism rather than a completely new philosophy. Sort of bordering on one tree with two branches, as it were. --- "This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence." --- Vyvyan, The Young Ones |
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