The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.: Ted Honderich.

Oxford University Press, New

York, 1995.
173: The major assault on civilized values in the ancient world, as being no true values, was
mounted by the Cynics. Like Pyrrho, he seems to have identified animals as admirable: the
mouse running unafraid about the house to find its food. Cosmopolitismo: en los estoicos:
Owing no allegiance to the gods and customs of any little state, they declared themselves to be
citizens of the world. Cynics put more of this in practice than the Stoics did, and despised the
cosmological and logical inquiries of Stoics and the Academy
174: Diogenes and the rest may have despised the intellectual and political currency of their day
() But they were dedicated moralists, not nihilists. Lmpara, hombre: searching in daylight
with a lantern for a genuinely just man, cynics despise all moral or altruistic claims