CYNICISM   

DOCTRINE that one SHOULD DESPISE ALL THINGS AND PERSONS BECAUSE THEY LACK REAL VALUE.
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Old Chinese Criteria
To the student of ancient philosophy there is in Cynicism scarcely more than a rudimentary and debased version of the ethics of Socrates, which exaggerates his austerity to a fanatic asceticism, hardens his irony to sardonic laughter at the follies of mankind, and affords no parallel to his genuine love of knowledge. Well might Plato have said of the first and greatest Cynic, 'That man is Socrates gone mad.' Dudley p. ix Cynicism is usually presented to us in histories of Greek philosophy, where it forms an interlude of semi-comic relief between Socrates and Plato, or between Plato and the Stoics.
Hypernym
  • DOCTRINE　SYSTEM of ARGUED TRANSMITTED BELIEFS. (anc: 7/0, child: 48)
  • BELIEVE　ATTITUDE IN-RELATION-TO a THINK:thought to the effect that this THOUGHT is TRUE. (anc: 6/0, child: 15)
  • ATTITUDE　RELATION between a HUMAN who FEELS and PERCEIVED OBJECTS involving a TENDENDY to REACT. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
Other Hypernyms
  • DESPISE　FEEL that a THING OR a HUMAN is UNIMPORTANT AND BAD AND DESERVES NO RESPECT (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
  • SOCIAL EMOTION　FEELING ENACTED IN RELATION TO OTHER HUMANS. (anc: 12/0, child: 6)
  • FEELING　NATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND. (anc: 11/0, child: 17)
  • Enzyklopaedie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie ( MITTELSTRASS 1996) p. 4.871

  • Democritus Ridens ( WEBER 1857) p. 12.229

  • On Youthful Cynicism ( RUSSELL 1930) p.

  • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

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