POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antisthenes, Money Changer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2107
• Professor: Sophie Bourgault

Document Summary

Diogenes (4122-323 b. c) a (cid:862) ocrates go(cid:374)e (cid:373)ad? (cid:863) a few words about his life. Born in sinope, fairly powerful rich city in modern day turkey. Father was a coin maker and money changer: when he was young, diogenes helped his father in this. Made his way to athens and attached himself to a student/friend of socrates named. Antisthenes: antisthenes was a very strong critic of greed and was very deeply influenced by socrates. Returned to the streets of athens and lived to the age of 90 years old: a lot of people were upset by his death. Happi(cid:374)ess to dioge(cid:374)es is (cid:862)t(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:395)uility of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) (cid:862)to so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho had p(cid:396)o(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lusi(cid:448)ely (cid:863) pg. (cid:1006)(cid:1005)(cid:1005: detachment from all possible sources of suffering, requires a masterful indifference to pain. Subject yourself to regular painful exercises: (cid:862)i(cid:374) the su(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:396) dioge(cid:374)es used to (cid:396)oll hi(cid:373)self (cid:863) pg. Live frugally, refrain from indulging in any kind of excess or luxury.