Cynicism
Happiness lies in virtue and living by nature, free of wealth and convention
Key ideas
- Virtue is the only good
- Contempt for wealth, fame and social conventions
- Self-sufficiency: needing as little as possible
- Cosmopolitanism: "I am a citizen of the world" (Diogenes)
Key thinkers
- Antisthenes (founder) — Greek philosopher, pupil of Socrates, 445 BC–365 BC
- Diogenes of Sinope — ancient Greek Cynic philosopher, 412 BC–323 BC
What grew out of it
- Stoicism c. 300 BC – 250 · Europe
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Mohism Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Legalism Asia
- Nyaya Asia
- Patristics Africa
- Madhyamaka Asia
- Yogachara Asia
- Chan and Zen Asia