By watching a mouse, this philosopher supposedly developed a principle of self-reliance called askesis.
Various accounts of this man's death include voluntarily holding his breath for too long or eating a raw octopus. This man refuted a paradox presented by Eubulides that a person possesses horns by touching people on the forehead. By watching a mouse, this philosopher supposedly developed a principle of self-reliance called askesis. This philosopher famously requested "get out of my sunlight" to (*) Alexander the Great, after which Alexander quipped "If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be [this philosopher]." This "mad Socrates," who refuted the idea that man was a "featherless chicken," carried around a lamp in broad daylight and lived in a bathtub in public, such shameless behavior that he and his followers came to be named after dogs. For 10 points, Cynicism was founded by what man from Sinope?
Various accounts of this man's death include voluntarily holding his breath for too long or eating a raw octopus.
Diogenes of Sinope