This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient letter collection called the Cynic Epistles. This one looks at those letters (most likely falsely) attributed to Crates, the third scholarch of the Cynic school.

Specifically it focuses on the Cynic conception of philosophy, and the trope that Cynic philosophy is the short road to happiness.  Crates, the third scholarch of the Cynic school, was a member of a developing tradition that was viewed as started by Antisthenes and refined or perfected by Diogenes of Sinope.

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Cynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Cynicism As Philosophy's Short Path - Sadler's Lectures

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