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Do you think these two philosophers have much in common? They both despise Plato and his abstract philosophy, Nietzsche’s story of the madman has elements of the story of Diogenes walking through a marketplace holding a lamp in the day time looking for a honest man.

Diogenes was very in touch with the natural world and the animalistic nature of man too.

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Diogenes once masturbated in public and said ‘if I could only rid myself of hunger by rubbing my belly!’

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I love Diogenes play on Plato with the Alexander the Great story.
Plato says the philosopher ruler is the one who is in the light outside the cave, but Diogenes is enlightened and he lives in a jar, all the ‘philosopher king’ is doing, is blocking the light and Alexander says, ‘if i could be any other man, i would be Diogenes.

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