KnowraCynicismLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Cynicism, each with the reason it gives.All 13Related 3Narrower topic 3Compared with 7StoicismCompared with: Stoicism kept the Cynic demand to live according to nature but dropped the shamelessness.EpicureanismCompared with: Cynics and Epicureans both criticize luxury but offer different accounts of the good life.Ancient Greek philosophyCompared with: Cynics pursued virtue through public simplicity rather than the institutional life of other schools.EudaimoniaCompared with: Cynics sought flourishing through radical self-sufficiency rather than ordinary civic and social goods.Hellenistic philosophyCompared with: Its confrontational rejection of institutions contrasts with the more systematic schools.Greek philosophyCompared with: Its radical rejection of social convention tests Greek accounts of civic and material life.PlatoCompared with: Cynic simplicity challenges the social hierarchy and political design of Plato’s ideal city.