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« on: August 16, 2018, 05:38:14 AM »

The best of the ancient Greek philosophers.
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2018, 06:08:24 AM »

Smarter than Plato

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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2018, 06:57:38 AM »

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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2018, 09:24:17 AM »

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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2018, 11:22:45 AM »

If you truly believe that you must hold a very low opinion of Greek philosophy.
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2018, 12:55:28 PM »

If you truly believe that you must hold a very low opinion of Greek philosophy.
..or maybe just a cynical one. (=two meanings).

I've always wondered how many people realize what the word means etymologically speaking.
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2018, 03:09:03 PM »

First class genii: PLATON, second class genii: ARISTOTELES, third class genii: DIOGENES.

He was even a bad cynic (or at least a bad actor), because real cynism is hiding itself.
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2018, 01:03:15 AM »

Diogenes is overly discredited as a loon. He was smarter than most philosophers of that day and age and had the sense of humor to back it up.
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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2018, 11:26:06 AM »

Diogenes is overly discredited as a loon. He was smarter than most philosophers of that day and age and had the sense of humor to back it up.

He had a sense of humor, but he was not smarter than his contemporaries. He was just a troll.
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« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2018, 09:19:32 PM »

Diogenes is overly discredited as a loon. He was smarter than most philosophers of that day and age and had the sense of humor to back it up.

He had a sense of humor, but he was not smarter than his contemporaries. He was just a troll.

i may have taken a few liberties saying that as his intelligence is little hard to determine but he was certainly comparable in that aspect despite his "unorthodox" (for lack of a better term) method of showing it.
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