SOC SCI H1E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Antisthenes, Cyrenaics, Peripatetic School
16 Apr 2019
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Remember to go on canvas and answer all the study guide questions for the midterm next tuesday! ***** short essay format, 20 minutes approximately per question. Try to make an argument rather than state facts. Aristotle is the most famous post-socratic philosopher, because of his influence on. Others also followed socrates in reflecting on the nature of what make a good life! Peripatetics (aristotle) - walking or wandering ; speaker walked a lot while they thought about philosophy. Cynics (antisthenes; diogenes) - apparently related to the greek word dog . People would insult them by calling them dogs. This was founded by antisthenes who was a student of socrates. Anti was an ascetic philosopher who rejected all conventional desires: wealth, power, sex, fame, eating fancy things, etc. Claimed that to be happy, you need to live simply and in accordance with nature; base level for the most happiness.
