The Philosophy of Cynicism | 3 Important Life Lessons from Diogenes the Cynic

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The Philosophy of Cynicism | 3 Important Life Lessons from Diogenes the Cynic

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The Philosophy of Cynicism is probably the most fascinating in history. It was popularized by Diogenes, the cynic philosopher who took it to its logical extremes by living in a large ceramic jar in a market place, rejecting all the conventional desires that the society today are working so hard for, such as wealth, reputation, possessions, and fame. For them, the purpose of life is to live in agreement with nature, that the basic necessities in life are all we need to live and be happy. Cynicism and Diogenes don't have a written doctrine, but rather, they reveal it through actions.
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@whodislmao7346 2 жыл бұрын

1) Stop caring about what others think of you 2) Don’t take life too seriously, live it with humour/Laugh 3) Happiness is always there, we’re just looking at the wrong side

@pits7035 11 ай бұрын

🎉

@theluckypepsi3277 3 жыл бұрын

"We live in a society" -Diogenes

@Dgnz-du2nv 3 жыл бұрын

But we shouldn't

@lucim6097 3 жыл бұрын

i came here to research him, and this helped a lot! i can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers, your content is certainly within the same bracket as much larger creators

@agdgdgwngo 2 жыл бұрын

I hate to be a cynic but this video hardly mentions Diogenes and trails off on a self-help tangent that is completely anti-thethical to everything the Cynics stood for.

@thePWNmaster5 3 жыл бұрын

He was a very wise man :D

@ay243y4 Жыл бұрын

Having a family full of narcissist who are two faced are good promoters of Cynicism. Irony is they don't even realize it because their blind to actions, but open to others opinion.

@fahadhussain66 9 ай бұрын

You're speaking the hearts of millions out there.

@iangabrielranera7195 3 жыл бұрын

Now this is quality content

@Viroh 2 жыл бұрын

Here is to you: I don't have a job, I quit my education in university, I live on welfare and feel great. Does it annoy you? Good. I don't care.

@junesilvermanb2979 2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@Zuxuis 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent content, always something interesting to think about and reflect on. Keep it up!

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend. 👍

@drinmaliqi9531 2 жыл бұрын

@@thoughtground8347 please do more videos don't stop

@gabrielmattusdonaire3945 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, now I understand more cynicism.

@lindsysombrero153 3 жыл бұрын

Finally out! I've been waiting for this video to happen and here it is❤️been reading up on why and how the modern meaning of cynicism has shifted from the original philosophy. Thank you so much for this, I hope there's more of this soon🥺

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Sure! We can talk about this subject in depth.

@gabrielmattusdonaire3945 3 жыл бұрын

@@thoughtground8347 We'd love to hear more about cynicism!

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielmattusdonaire3945 Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. I'll be doing another cynicism video some other time.

@mayanksahu6385 3 жыл бұрын

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@Reuben35newman 3 жыл бұрын

If you stick to a pretty consistent uploading schedule & continue with this same quality of videos,your channel will grow far past where it’s at.I expected you to have around 200k subs,it’s crazy to me that you only have 700.Keep it up

@willaella2888 3 жыл бұрын

You're the best ThoughtGround...great videos..very amazing...👍

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Kingiam123 3 жыл бұрын

Nice vid. Inspiration for my day!

@wilmaella7653 3 жыл бұрын

perfect videos now a days...good job...love it...😍😍😍

@linacatalan9688 3 жыл бұрын

THE BEAUTY OF THIS VIDEO IS ALL ABOUT THE LIFE IN GENERAL..VERY IMPRESSIVE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE INFORMATION 📚THANK YOU ♥️GOD BLESS US ALL 💮💮💮PEACE AND LOVE EVERYONE 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@gisselleberrios474 2 жыл бұрын

This was so deep and exactly what I needed to hear to shake me out my funk

@Myownthoughts13 3 жыл бұрын

Your content is gem. Loved the video bro.. great work.. keep doing it😇🙌🏻

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@danafrancescatioyao3438 3 жыл бұрын

Nice content. Very informative and enlightening.👍🏻

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@fitzgeraldmandap821 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing videos with a good content that we should probably watch... NICE

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you man!

@thestateofdk 9 ай бұрын

Great video! +subscribed!

@souta79 2 жыл бұрын

No wonder why i like this philosophy, because its so similar to my favorite tao and stoic.

@johnweber4577 2 ай бұрын

I’d say that Cynicism is to Stoicism what Taoism is to Confucianism.

@typeme4928 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for this it helps me alot

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it helps

@HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw 11 ай бұрын

Diogenes cared about what people thought of him. He wouldn’t be living in the streets if he did. He lived in the streets to manipulate people’s opinion of him. People seeing him live in the streets was the main reason for him living in the streets.

@kingbrad4863 5 ай бұрын

Everyone acts out their own ideals to some degree. Take it how you may, he was being congruent to his word.

@winjayella3928 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you ThoughtGround for making great videos👌😇😇

@theydontexist 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this video.

@multipaulcontent8983 3 жыл бұрын

Keep it up 😇

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@fernandoorozco5968 3 жыл бұрын

he is my personal hero

@ltggladstone716 3 жыл бұрын

Could do with a little less stock footage, otherwise great content! keep it up dude

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@thepaintdaniel 3 жыл бұрын

Salamat

@Enigma_Vids 3 жыл бұрын

This aligns entirely with what I've always felt to be true. Thanks for putting it simply for us average folk. How did Diogenes start thinking this way? Was there a book that started him on this path?

@davidth.o.g.2229 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that information is anything we could ever find as it seems that he didn't keep a record of himself, we are lucky enough to hear about him from others observing him (I think). We're very lucky to be able to find minds that give us clarity of truth. Good luck I search brother. (Or sister)

@lolnino8511 Жыл бұрын

I thought it was normal to think this way?? 😭😭

@TerraMillsHydro 10 ай бұрын

I have a question. If you are Christian and paying for health insurance. Do you also pay to go to the back of the ride line at Disney World?

@jasoncoker1625 9 ай бұрын

🤘💯

@geoffballe8766 Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@panagisvovos 3 жыл бұрын

Usual misconception: the name of the group of philosophers called "cynic" comes from the word Kynosarges, which has been a nameplace in ancient Athens. Besides the school where the philosophers met, it had a gym that was the only one that could accept non-Athenians. Their initial name was "Antisthenic" from their founder Antisthenis.

@glanced9684 Жыл бұрын

Never been so calm watching a video at 3% battery.

@alexandergomez0327 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽

@mr.christopher8173 Жыл бұрын

The future is now!

@lackinglogic1981 9 ай бұрын

It's wrong to call him dog when he lives naturally with nature as a human...the only real human in his eyes at the time was the one who could really live as nature intended. We consider him a dog because we as a collective think we are above nature even tho we all come from the same planet.

@VenusLover17 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!,,

@MESENJAH 3 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm like this man, I could care less what others think about me, other people's opinions of me mean nothing to me, anytime you are concerned with what others think of you, you are letting others define whom you are, a very ignorant concept to live by. " It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly SICK SOCIETY. " Jidu Krishna Murti.

@bensmith2692 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@perlefisker 7 ай бұрын

I find it somewhat cute, how so many of these philosophy (and psychology) KZfaqrs are in reality talking to themselves, convincing themselves. It's interesting how so many of them quote Marcus Aurelius, himself a perfect example of a fraud. Always worried - and not Stoic at all - he wrote to himself, the meditations - copy-pasted of real Stoics - the KZfaqr of his days.

@animalia5554 3 жыл бұрын

Side note: do you have any thoughts on Buddhist philosophy?

@thoughtground8347 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe I'll make a video about that some other time.

@sarahwise7865 2 жыл бұрын

How did hard work come into this video on cynicism

@rollzolo 3 жыл бұрын

Funny I thought of Steve jobs and the keyboard popped up 4:20

@JaviCastillo_89 2 жыл бұрын

"Of course you need to set goals and have plans" What was that?

@psychronic8327 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone be talking about philosophy. Yet you guys missed the biggest detail. Diogenes grew up and lived in a different era with different social norms. What worked then won't work now unless you are okay with being beat up and jailed for loitering amongst other things

@barb2793 Жыл бұрын

Truth

@kingbrad4863 5 ай бұрын

Philosophy is a mindset. It can work until the end of time. Some people are at different levels of their journey and advice is not applicable to everyone. Nobody is going to see it exactly the same

@TerraMillsHydro 10 ай бұрын

Everyone has advice on how to live life. I stick with the guys who are still being talked about 2000 years after their deaths.

@andrew-mb6qg 3 жыл бұрын

yes!!

@mulattojosh4489 3 жыл бұрын

The mentor i never met

@dorianphilotheates3769 10 ай бұрын

Diogenes The 🐕 was da 💣💥!

@randybackgammon890 Жыл бұрын

Why should I follow this....I,m a cynic after all

@mayanksahu6385 3 жыл бұрын

New subscriber

@cannibalgrape9863 6 ай бұрын

The end result of all actions is the heat death of the universe, so stop worrying so much.

@themacocko6311 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure you can't take your life by holding your breath. You pass out and involuntary breathing will continue.

@al-esayi 2 жыл бұрын

🖕 are you telling me what to do?!

@Adam-ui3ot 3 жыл бұрын

I carried on breathing.

@yeshuaneitheristheresalvat8018 2 жыл бұрын

His actions were immoral. And he was seeking virtue. He knew not the 1st thing of virtue. He was less then an animal. There are other true cynics that lived virtious

@wolfskrieger6779 5 ай бұрын

It gets hypocritical by the minute

@meowtrox1234 2 жыл бұрын

If cynic is to dogs, then what are cats?

@hikigayahaachiman Жыл бұрын

stoics i guess.

@MarcDufresneosorusrex 2 жыл бұрын

A Lao Tzu quote on a video of cynics, what madness is this?

@alexminsky1 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, as a cynic I should point out the subtle underlying agenda of this video which seems to be marrying cynicism and good ‘ol capitalism and personal development. It manifests itself in the second point. These are inherently contradictory.

@Dgnz-du2nv 3 жыл бұрын

You tell him my dude..

@jupiterchild3848 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@1993whitenoise 3 жыл бұрын

So I’m a cynic that loves material great I’m corrupt.

@MESENJAH 3 жыл бұрын

The minute you fall out of love with material things, you will then start to truly live, until then the life you live will be nothing more than a lie.

@Viroh 2 жыл бұрын

bad trap in this video: op is assuming Diogenes was happy, lol, source?