Diogenes was the philosopher who came up with the idea of cynicism. It is the philosophy of the dog. “Live our soul in our body our mind is easily tricked by our body.” This thought teaches children about vital needs not desires. Students learned about these basic requirements to live and do everything that is done in private in the public. To allow people to be charitable to them from what they taught. These were equivalent to the teaching to Jesus. Diogenes and his students lived as though they were dogs during the early 200’s bc. …show more content…
Plato borrowed the teachings of Zeno. The question they wonder “what is the good life?” and “what make the bad life?” Zeno didn’t believe you need extravagant things to have the good life. The students were taught to deny your desires, don’t but lustful, and everyone should suppress their addiction. These set of bylaws were the earliest form of the Ten Commandments that God sent to Moses. Zeno came up with the word Logos (is God). This teaching taught “the soul is perfect since its of God while body is of the Earth”. Zeno believed and taught his followers that being close to Logos and being calm like God is, that all humans are flawed in every living soul. They also believed a little bit of Logos is in us when we are serene and