![]() resenting barking, grateful to whom gives anything, etc. Like dogs, the cynics live in society, but on their own, without participating in social conventions, with their life according to the animal nature, reluctant to join the group, etc. There are some philosophers, the Cynics, the dogs, from κύων kyon ' dog', who may also receive the name from the place where he taught the first founder, Antisthenes, in the gym called Cinosargos, Kyon-Argos, agile dog, although certainly the name also came given by the peculiarities of their anti ideas, which failed to be translated into an elaborate theory, but consisted of simple maxims that define life in society freely and without prejudice. ![]() They came then all sorts of ideas and theories about the nature and the man himself and various schools, which are often identified by the place where they met and their teachers taught their doctrines : Academics because Plato taught in the land that was property of certain Academos (see ), Peripatetics (περιπατητικοί) from περι, peri, around, and πατειν, patein, to walk, because Aristotle taught walking in a garden near the temple of, Apollo Licius, ie the Lyceum Stoics from Στωϊκός, Stoikos because Zeno preached his own disciples in the " Poikile stoa" Ποικίλη Στοά, or Painted Porch. When the Greeks, applying reason, they began to wonder what is there ?, why they are?, to what do serve the real things, they gave beginning to Philosophy.
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