Friday, April 21, 2006
This Day in Ancient History
On this day in 323 BC, Diogenes of Sinope, a cynical philosopher, dies. Here is a shorthand way to keep some of the ancient philosophies straight. Epicures would take delight in having their wives in their arms and the pleasure of that moment would be complete. Stoics with their wives in their arms would take pleasure, but would keep in mind that one day their wives would be dead and decaying and that thought would temper their pleasure. Cynics with their wives in their arms would try to imagine right then their wives dead and decaying and thus would take no pleasure at all in holding them alive. I tend toward Epicurean philosophy myself and reject all things cynical.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:59 AM 
