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The Cynical Genius Illusion

Colin Wright
Mar 12, 2024
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The Cynical Genius Illusion

Colin Wright
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December 5, 2023

The early Cynics were Greek philosophers who, riffing on some ideas from Socrates, claimed that one can only achieve freedom from perpetual suffering by seeing through the fog of false-beliefs and culturally enforced nonsense, defying the demands of community and emotion, and thus achieving clarity of thought and behavior by (in essence) erring toward p…

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