{"id":289,"date":"2024-01-17T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2025-06-11T00:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:54:15","slug":"diogenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/diogenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Diogenes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-4e15be11031f5513118d47e1779a0414\" style=\"color:#000000\">Answer: Diogenes was the philosopher of lack of needs.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The philosopher Diogenes, the daredevil, was born around the year 400 BC in the city of Sinope in Asia Minor on the Black Sea. That is why he is also called Diogenes of Sinope. He should not be confused with the historian Diogenes Laertius. The philosopher Diogenes is the son of a money changer named Hikesias. Together with his father, Diogenes has to flee Sinope because of counterfeiting and goes to Athens, where he becomes a student of the Cynic Antisthenes. According to tradition, the Athenian born around 440 was a student of Socrates. Antisthenes is considered the founder of the philosophical movement of Cynicism, which made Diogenes famous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The name cynics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The hallmark of the Cynic is their lack of need, their lack of shame, and their rejection of traditional norms and laws. The name Cynic is either a derogatory term (Greek kyos = dog) or comes from the gymnasium of Kynosarges in Athens, where Antisthenes taught. The followers of Diogenes often lived by begging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get out of my sunlight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>His life in a barrel and his encounter with the general Alexander the Great are well-known: When Alexander granted him a wish, Diogenes replied: \"Get out of my sunlight!\" He explained his wandering around with a lantern in broad daylight in the Agora, the marketplace of Athens, as a search for a real human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bed\u00fcrfnislosigkeit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Diogenes starb im Jahre 323 in Korinth. Stichworte zum Lebenslauf von Diogenes: Philosoph in der Tonne, Bed\u00fcrfnislosigkeit, Kynismus. Kurze Zusammenfassung der Biographie: Diogenes lehnte das Streben nach Besitz und die gesellschaftliche Ordnung ab. Er strebte nach innerer Freiheit und pers\u00f6nlichem Gl\u00fcck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kyniker vs Stoiker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Anspruchslosigkeit von Diogenes ist auch bei Epiktet (Verfasser des &#8222;Handb\u00fcchleins&#8220;) und anderen Stoikern zu finden, ebenfalls bei einigen fr\u00fchen Christen und beim christlichen Asketen Franz von Assisi. Diogenes geh\u00f6rt zu den Philosophen, die in Raffaels ber\u00fchmtem Gem\u00e4lde der &#8222;Schule von Athen&#8220; einen zentralen Platz einnehmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diogenes heute<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wenn Diogenes heute leben w\u00fcrde, w\u00fcrden Sie ihn aufnehmen? Diogenes war ein sehr scharfsinniger Philosoph und wohl ein liebenswerter Mensch. Zum Gl\u00fcck waren die Athener so tolerant, ihn auf der Agora zu dulden. Wo w\u00e4re Diogenes heute? K\u00f6nnte er sich am Leben halten? Oder w\u00e4re er einsam gestorben \u00fcber einem L\u00fcftungsschacht?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwort: Diogenes war der Philosoph der Bed\u00fcrfnislosigkeit. Der Philosoph Diogenes, der wilde Hund, wird um das Jahr 400 vor Christus in der Stadt Sinope in Kleinasien am Schwarzen Meer geboren. Deshalb wird er auch Diogenes von Sinope genannt. Er ist nicht zu verwechseln mit dem Historiker Diogenes Laertius. Der Philosoph Diogenes ist der Sohn eines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stoizismus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stoa.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}