ANTISTHENÉS MEDZI SÓKRATOM A DIOGENOM

• Authors: Suvák Vladislav

Title variants

EN

Antisthenes between Socrates and Diogenes

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the Socratic ethics as developed by Antisthenes and conceived by the doxografical tradition as the basis of Diogenes' Cynicism. The author tries to show that Antisthenes' thought as a whole is connected with paideia (education). Thus Antisthenes' interpretations of Homer as well as his logical paradoxes have ethical aiming. There is a close connection between Antisthenes' logic and his ethics of the care of the self. Socratic thought in Antisthenes' fragments is neither sceptical nor dialectical. Contrary to both 'intellectualistic' tendencies Antisthenes puts stress on the wise continually practicing ethics. By using of logical paradoxes (mainly ouk estin antilegein) Antisthenes probably hoped to demonstrate the anti-Platonic priority of ethics over metaphysics and logic. From this point of view Antisthenes can be seen as the predecessor of practical Cynical bios (way of life).

Keywords

EN

ANTISTHENES; CYNICISM; DIOGENES; ETHICS; LOGICAL PARADOXES; PAIDEIA; SOCRATES

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 545-557
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Suvák Vladislav

• Doc. Mgr. Vladislav Suvak, PhD., Inštitut filozofie a etiky FF PU, ul. 17. novembra 1, 080 78 Presov, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA097313