The Great Cynic - Diogenes of Sinope*
Greek Philosopher Figurine
This item features a beaming Diogenes, the Greek Philosopher who believed in the virtue of poverty and lived in a ceramic barrel to prove that you do not need material possessions to be happy. One of a kind creation, made by a skilled pottery artist with a unique humoristic style. His highly detailed creations are made using 4 original natural clay colors. Collectible figurine
Size (HxW) approx. : 5 x 4 inch / 13 x 10 cm
Weight approx. : 1.8 lb / 0.8 kg
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About the Artist: A pottery artist from Israel with a great talent for expressing images and situations in a humoristic style. Depicting daily life, professional people and traditional Jewish characters in charming detail and color. In most of his works he combines various types of clay, maintaining their original colors
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* The most famous Cynic was Diogenes of Sinope who arrived in Athens in the early fourth century BC, under a cloud of scandal. His father had worked in the central bank of Sinope, and either Diogenes or his father were accused of ‘defacing the currency’ of Sinope, and booted out of the city. Rather than hiding in shame, Diogenes embraced his notoriety. When he arrived in Athens, he set himself up as a radical philosopher, went to live in a barrel in the middle of the Athenian marketplace, and declared it his mission in life to ‘deface the currency’ of civilised conventions.Diogenes attacked and defaced this false morality of appearances. He broke down the wall between the public and private selves, and insisted that anything we are happy to do in private we should be happy to do in public as well. Diogenes lived in public, in his barrel. He slept in public, ate in public, defecated in public, even masturbated in public. This was an aggressive assertion of his freedom from civilised conventions and his preference for a life ‘in accordance with nature’ rather than with false civilised values. These animal antics earned him the name Diogenes Kynikos, or Diogenes the Dog-like.
Diogenes insisted the Cynic life is both happier – less anxious, less enslaved to externals, more free – and also more virtuous, in that it’s dedicated to the inner values of the Socratic tradition rather than the external goods of status and luxury. And Cynicism was also a form of street theatre: the Cynic acts out their revolution against civilised conventions in the full view of the public. Of course, this drew criticisms that Cynics may have freed themselves from the need for public approval, but not from the need for public attention.
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