Cynic Epistles

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

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 practice of begging or asking for resources from other people. In the letters, a number of distinctions get made about who one should beg and receive from and why, and conversely who one shouldn't ask or take from.  Begging was one distinctive feature of lived Cynic philosophy.

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Cynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Cynicism, Begging, And Accepting From Others

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 nature of human happiness (eudaimonia), which for the Cynics involves freedom and virtue. Crates discusses or references a number of the virtues, including wisdom, justice, temperance, and courage, as well as vices opposed to these. He also briefly examines how these virtues are developed through toil (ponos), self-control and endurance, as well as how the vices develop, in significant part through bad decision-making and pursuit of pleasures

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Cynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Cynicism, Virtue, And Happiness - Sadler's Lectures

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 notion of "toil" (ponos, ponein) in Cynic philosophy and practice.  The Cynics argue that toil, that is actively engaging in work and enduring what one encounters, is what leads a person to development of the virtues, which include wisdom, justice, temperance, and courage.  Our engagement with toil is both voluntary and involuntary, and if we do not choose the right sorts of toil, because we want to avoid it, we will have to deal with other sorts of toil as unpleasant consequences

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Cynic Epistles Attributed to Crates - Prudently Taking On Toil - Sadler's Lectures

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