![]() ![]() He disputes Platonic definitions and from this comes one of his more memorable actions: “ Plato had defined the human being as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Wiki says -T he Malamati is one for whom the doctrine of “spiritual states” is fraught with subtle deceptions of the most despicable kind he despises personal piety, not because he is focused on the perceptions or reactions of people, but as a consistent involuntary witness of his own “pious hypocrisy”. This later found not a far cry association with Sufi practice of Malāmatiyya among the mystic group active in 9th century Greater Khorasan. The most scandalous of these sorts of activities involves his act of masturbation in the marketplace, to which he responded “I wish it were as easy to relieve hunger by rubbing an empty stomach”. It was contrary to Athenian convention to eat in the marketplace, and yet there he would eat for, as he explained when reproached, it was in the marketplace that he felt hungry. Plato had responded something like this when he was asked about Diogenes, “He is…A Socrates gone mad” (Diogenes Laertius, Book 6, Chapter 54). Diogenes’ sense of shamelessness was an extension of cynicism and it involved a repositioning of convention below nature and reason. “You are a simpleton, Hegesias you do not choose painted figs, but real ones and yet you pass over the true training and would apply yourself to written rules” He reprimands Hegesias upon being asked to lend his writing tablet: Diogenes was all in favor of direct verbal interaction over the written account or books. He had stretched out his staff against Diogenes, when he said the above words in response to this action. It is said of Antisthenes that he was present when Socrates drank the poison Hemlock in the jail. He was allegedly the student of Antisthenes to whom he said, “Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you’ve something to say.” Antisthenes did not welcome disciples. – translated by Nader Khalili in Rumi, Fountain of Fireĭiogenes of Sinope was one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. The Sufi mystic, Jalalaldin Rumi in his work, Divan-e-Shams,talks about this cynic form the ancient Greece as : Asked where he came from, he said, “ I am a citizen of the world.” ![]()
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