跟读练习: The philosophy of cynicism - William D. Desmond - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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In the 4th century BCE, a banker’s son threw the city of Sinope into scandal by counterfeiting coins.
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In the 4th century BCE, a banker’s son threw the city of Sinope into scandal by counterfeiting coins.
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When the dust finally settled, the young man, Diogenes of Sinope, had been stripped of his citizenship, his money, and all his possessions.
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At least, that’s how the story goes.
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While many of the details of Diogenes’ life are shadowy, the philosophical ideas born out of his disgrace survive today.
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In exile, Diogenes decided that by rejecting the opinions of others and societal measures of success, he could be truly free.
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He would live self-sufficiently, close to nature, without materialism, vanity, or conformity.
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In practice, this meant he spent years wandering around Greek cities with nothing but a cloak, staff, and knapsack— outdoors year-round, forgoing technology, baths, and cooked food.
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He didn’t go about this new existence quietly, but is said to have teased passers-by and mocked the powerful, eating, urinating and even masturbating in public.
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The citizens called him a kyôn— a barking dog.
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Though meant as an insult, dogs were actually a good symbol for his philosophy— they’re happy creatures, free from abstractions like wealth or reputation.
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Diogenes and his growing number of followers became known as “dog philosophers,” or kynikoi, a designation that eventually became the word “Cynic.” These early Cynics were a carefree bunch, drawn to the freedom of a wandering lifestyle.
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As Diogenes’ reputation grew, others tried to challenge his commitment.
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Alexander the Great offered him anything he desired.
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But instead of asking for material goods, Diogenes only asked Alexander to get out of his sunshine.
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After Diogenes’ death, adherents to his philosophy continued to call themselves Cynics for about 900 years, until 500 CE.
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Some Greek philosophers, like the Stoics, thought everyone should follow Diogenes’ example.
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They also attempted to tone down his philosophy to be more acceptable to conventional society— which, of course, was fundamentally at odds with his approach.
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Others viewed the Cynics less charitably.
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In the Roman province of Syria in the 2nd century CE, the satirist Lucian described the Cynics of his own time as unprincipled, materialistic, self-promoting hypocrites, who only preached what Diogenes had once actually practiced.
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Reading Lucian’s texts centuries later, Renaissance and Reformation writers called their rivals cynics as an insult— meaning people who criticized others without having anything worthwhile to say.
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This usage eventually laid the groundwork for the modern meaning of the word “cynic:" a person who thinks everyone else is acting out of pure self-interest, even if they claim a higher motive.
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Still, the philosophy of cynicism had admirers, especially among those who wished to question the state of society.
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The 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was called the “new Diogenes” when he argued that the arts, sciences, and technology, corrupt people.
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In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche reimagined a story in which Diogenes went into the Athenian marketplace with a lantern, searching in vain for a single honest person.
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In Nietszche’s version, a so-called madman rushes into a town square to proclaim that “God is dead.” This was Nietzsche’s way of calling for a “revaluation of values,” and rejecting the dominant Christian and Platonic idea of universal, spiritual insights beyond the physical world.
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Nietzsche admired Diogenes for sticking stubbornly to the here-and-now.
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More recently, the hippies of the 1960s have been compared with Diogenes as counter-cultural rebels.
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Diogenes’ ideas have been adopted and reimagined over and over again.
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The original cynics might not have approved of these fresh takes: they believed that their values of rejecting custom and living closely with nature were the only true values.
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Whether or not you agree with that, or with any of the later incarnations, all have one thing in common: they questioned the status quo.
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And that’s an example we can still follow: not to blindly follow conventional or majority views, but to think hard about what is truly valuable.
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