He sat in on lectures from the other schools of philosophy (e.g., Cynicism, Epicureanism) and eventually started his own. However, the Stoics did not believe that the founders were perfectly wise. In ...
The soon-to-expire Biden administration is behaving as if an invading foreign power is about to take over and the house must be burned down to keep the "invaders" from succeeding. In the past few ...
To the end of his life, Claud Cockburn stuck to two core beliefs. The first was his instinctive scepticism and cynicism about all who hold authority. But it was his second core belief that really ...
The word cynic today defines someone who acts with blatant falsehood or shamelessness ... because Pyrrhon (360-270 B.C.) thought he was very clear about his philosophy until he accompanied Alexander ...
As a child, I couldn’t imagine being weary of Christmas. The season’s joys confirmed life’s goodness. Now that I’m in my 20s, I’m starting to understand why some people suffer through ...
I have long seen Christmas as the quintessential battle between two forces within ourselves: the cynic and the myth-lover. Let’s take one prevalent Irish rural myth in the 19th and 20th ...