Context: the philosopher Plato defined a human as "a featherless biped," and the philosopher Diogenes showed him how stupid that definition was by holding up a plucked chicken. BEHOLD! A MAN!
More broadly, the Cynics, whose thought was largely derived from Diogenes, believed very much in going with one's 'gut', so to speak - the attempt to robustly define all things instead of intuitive understanding was, in the Cynic worldview, a fool's undertaking! You know what a damn man is when you see it!
Context: the philosopher Plato defined a human as "a featherless biped," and the philosopher Diogenes showed him how stupid that definition was by holding up a plucked chicken. BEHOLD! A MAN!
More broadly, the Cynics, whose thought was largely derived from Diogenes, believed very much in going with one's 'gut', so to speak - the attempt to robustly define all things instead of intuitive understanding was, in the Cynic worldview, a fool's undertaking! You know what a damn man is when you see it!
Cynie came from an Ancient greek word that means dog. that is why Cynics are all good boys.
Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski, Nowe Ateny, 1745