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Righter Monthly Review Volume 5 December 2012 Issue 12 |
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What's in our November Magazine? The November issue of Righter Monthly Review features original poems, stories, articles, serialized books, book reviews, travel and humor by a diverse collection of writers including advice from Minerva P. Shaw, a piece about hunts of a lifetime from Tim Whealton, commentary from Randy Bittle, a recipe from P. L. Almanza, poems, plus our famous Say What! Column outlining the follies of the age, humor, stories plus a few snippets of wisdom. To return to Righter Bookstore, click here Booksellers and Libraries Click Here
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About the Cover
Diogenes of Sinope,
Διογένης
ὁ
Κυνικός,
(c. 404-323 B.C.E.) was the
most illustrious Cynic sage in antiquity. He was a student of
Antisthenes.
Diogenes maintained his teacher’s asceticism and emphasis on ethics, but
brought to these philosophical positions a dynamism and sense of humor
that is unrivaled in the history of philosophy. Though originally from
Sinope, he lived in Athens for most of his life. No one is sure Diogenes
left anything in writing. If he did, the texts have been lost. In
Cynicism, living and writing are two components of ethical practice, but
Diogenes was much like Socrates and even Plato in his sentiments regarding
the superiority of direct verbal interaction over the written account.
Diogenes scolded Hegesias after he asked to borrow one of Diogenes’
writing tablets: “You are a simpleton, Hegesias; you should not choose
painted figs, but real ones; and yet you pass over the true training and
would apply yourself to written rules” (Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
Book 6, Chapter 48).
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