Cuadernos de Filología Clásica Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos· 2013Q1
En defensa del encuentro entre dos "Perros", Antístenes y Diógenes: historia de una tensa amistad
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This paper challenges the view that Antisthenes' ethics were a theoretical appendix to his Socratic dialectic and not foundational to cynicism, arguing against the idea that his affiliation with cynicism was merely an interpretatio cynica.
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- Challenges the modern interpretation of Antisthenes' ethics as a theoretical appendix detached from cynicism's origins.
- Argues against the notion that Antisthenes' link to cynicism is solely a later, biased 'interpretatio cynica'.
- Contests the denial of a direct personal connection between Antisthenes and Diogenes, despite acknowledged doctrinal similarities.
- Asserts that ancient authors' testimonies, uncontradicted by other evidence, explain cynicism's Socratic origins and early tensions.
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Abstract
Historians tend nowadays to interpret Antisthenes’ ethics as a purely theoretical appendix to the refl ections on the logos led by this philosopher within the scope of Socratic dialectic, as a chapter that played no role whatsoever in the actual origin of cynicism. The present paper aims at questioning, through an in-depth enquiry, the socalled basis of such an idea as being biased and arbitrary, as well as the point of view of those who consider that Antisthenes have been affi liated by the ancients to cynicism as the result of an interpretatio cynica of the data, without having himself subscribed to such a perspective, and who deny the possibility of a direct perso nal link between Antisthenes and Diogenes, while acknowledging unquestionable doctrinal similarities, unanimously attested in ancient tradition. There is no evidence, of a numismatic order or of any other kind, that contradicts the informations provided by the ancient authors and their testimony explain very well the origins of cynicism out of the Socratic movement, as well as the tensions that naturally took place right from the beginning between Cynics (as they did between other Socratics).
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