Cynic philosophy.

Cynic philosophy. (Today there much proselytizing)

The Cynic school was founded in Athens by Antisthenes (about 445-365 BC.). Would follow other philosophers like Diogenes, Crates, Hipparchia, Onesicritus, Mónimo, or Salustio (this already in the sixth century AD). Over time it would differentiate between those who wrote according to cynical guidelines and taking literary motifs inspired by cynicism (Onesicritus) and who lived a life according to the precepts of these "dogs", taking up the habits of beggars and vagabonds (Diogenes lived in a barrel), with Tribon (mantle), cane and saddlebag.

Cynics had as usual to lead a life of lying the sun Athenian agora dogs. They were in constant opposition and derision with traditional Greek schools, and were considered critical, subversive and revulsion against Platonic idealism and conventional rhetoric.

They rejected the Platonic theory of ideas, that is, for cynics there only what can be perceived by the senses, and defended an ethic of self reliance and independence. They spread the ideal of natural life and cosmopolitanism (the cynic Diogenes, banished from Sinope, was the first to assert that a citizen of the world) rejecting the existence of the state, and saying to the wise no country, no laws, no family or class differences.

Cynics formed a somewhat vague and utterly disorganized wandering teachers and philosophers popular group. His doctrine was heading main mode to the poor; taught contempt for all conventions, and their conduct adopted often an unpleasant coarseness(in a banquet began throwing ossicles {Diogenes} like a dog. And he went to them and feed them. like a dog)and an absolute disregard for the decorous forms (Diogenes conducted in public both corporeal needs and various sexualacts).

According The scholar George Sabine "arguably the first example of proletarian philosopher".

The cynic complaint not with beautiful speeches but with uncouth and aggressive manners, civic pact with a community that seems inauthentic and disturbed. It acts with a personal boldness that others see them rant and madness (Diogenes Plato defined as a crazed Socrates).

When the cynical refuses to pay homage to"respectable", it aims to denounce the inauthenticity of that respectability and assumptions that others accept habit and convenience rather than reasoning. With his vulgar and subversive gestures you are answering admitted to the social exchange values.

The political theory of the Cynics was utopian. Both Antístenes like Diogenes wrote political books and both sketched a kind of idealized communism, perhaps anarchy, in which the property, marriage and government disappeared.