COSMOPOLIS: TOWARDS A POSITIVE CONCEPTION OF CYNIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Jason Hill has argued that the Cynics are relevant as originators of a “‘radical notion of cosmopolitanism,”’ but their equation of human citizenship with rationality (correspondence to ‘cosmos’ or the world’s order) is “‘exalted,”’ “‘abstract and idealistic.”’ The advance made by the Stoics over the Cynics, he argues, is that with the former we have a move toward the concrete, towards a moral practice of “‘cross-communal affiliation”’ that more closely presages “‘the concomitant decline in the significance of tribal fixation and its attendant overdetermination,”’. I maintain that these ideas are already operative with ancient Cynics such as Diogenes and are in fact more radical than the Stoic version that succeeds them.
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