I have been doing a study into Diogenes as being a original (modern) anarchist and wether some of his teachings survived to inspire it.
What I found is that stoics included a concept of fate “all is as it should be”
This idea attracted Roman aristocracy who wrote about virtue and simple life while owning multiple villas.
What bothers me the most about this. What/How do “we from the present” know about stoicism/cynicism and other potential branches… because of ancient writings that survived.
Writing was expensive, even the little
We know about other branches, its almost all viewed from the perception of the stoic Roman elite.
Even Diogenes writings are gone, what we know about him comes from a gossip collector, a satirist and from rich stoics implementing some sanitised actual cynicism.
I have been doing a study into Diogenes as being a original (modern) anarchist and wether some of his teachings survived to inspire it.
What I found is that stoics included a concept of fate “all is as it should be”
This idea attracted Roman aristocracy who wrote about virtue and simple life while owning multiple villas.
What bothers me the most about this. What/How do “we from the present” know about stoicism/cynicism and other potential branches… because of ancient writings that survived.
Writing was expensive, even the little We know about other branches, its almost all viewed from the perception of the stoic Roman elite.
Even Diogenes writings are gone, what we know about him comes from a gossip collector, a satirist and from rich stoics implementing some sanitised actual cynicism.