He was a disciple of the Cynics, and during this period, Epicurus founded Epicureanism, while Pyrrho developed Scepticism — philosophical schools that also offered practical responses to the societal ...

Joel's current research is on the politics of refusal, exploring how the philosophical asceticism developed by Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans in antiquity might inform a broader politics of refusal ...

Stoicism takes its name from a covered walkway ... when the philosopher Crates the Cynic happened by. The Cynics were an earlier sect of philosophy who taught that popular opinion was of no ...

David Ashton finds that the Stoic view of anger needs updating. Stoics have a well-known aversion to strong emotions, but anger seems to fill them with a particular dread. Seneca, one of the ...

New York needed a strong-willed coach who won’t be shaken on the big stage. With his run in Detroit and a connection to the ...

He’s also the author of a new book called Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness. He’s here today to tell us what the research says about cynicism—and how we can harness ...

Antisthenes, Cynic philosopher and tutor of Diogenes, championed simplicity, virtue, and freedom, influencing Stoic thought.