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For Navia, the true Cynic criticizes out of a deep moral idealism, and the interpretation of ancient Cynicism as wholly negative is itself a sad
reflection on our own moral impoverishment.

Diogenes said darkly that it would make no more difference if the whole human race died out, because they are no better than flies and wasps.
...So too Diogenes may have thought that few people were really human: most belonged to the mob (ochlos) and in the famous image, Diogenes lit a lantern during the day and went around the city looking “for a human being” as if, under the bright Mediterranean sun, there would