cynic From: A New Dictionary of Eponyms | Date: 1997| Author: Morton S. Freeman | © A New Dictionary of Eponyms 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. Copyright information

cynic, Antisthenes The word cynic has undergone a complete turnabout in meaning in the last two thousand years. The Cynic school of philosophy was founded by Antisthenes (born about 440 B.C.), a pupil of Socrates. He took as his starting point the doctrine of his great teacher that virtue rather than pleasure is the chief end of life and constitutes true happiness. From this starting point he argued that because continued happiness is not possible if one has wants and desires...

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