Was he, dare I say it, /ourguy/?

No, he didn't exist to impress 14 year olds on a website.

He stepped on a carpet on the entrance of the Academy.
>I now step on Plato's pride!
Plato answered
>Yeah...with another kind of pride....

Replace Veeky Forums with ancient Greece and the inverse of your statement is more or less true.

I don't believe the legends about him... I just don't think this guy was truly obscene, or a true outsider or antagonist, despite what he is remembered for. In my view, the people who really threaten the status quo are simply not allowed to exist or be recorded in history. I'm sure the rulers of society would be quite pleased to see everyone choose 'virtuous' lives as beggars if it means there is no resistance to the ceaseless plundering of the world.

Diogenes never denied being proud, he just wasn't proud of rugs.

>plato said a man was a featherless biped
>he is applauded for this
>diogenes plucked a chicken and called it platos man
>plato had to add "with nails" to his definition

He was a top tier shitposter

Plato confirmed for being reptilian.

He's up there but Hegesias was our true guy.

>None of this, however, is as strong as the testimony of Cicero,[4] who claims that Hegesias wrote a book called Death by Starvation (Greek: ἀποkαρτερῶν), in which a man who has resolved to starve himself is introduced as representing to his friends that death is actually more to be desired than life, and that the gloomy descriptions of human misery which this work contained were so overpowering that they inspired many people to kill themselves, in consequence of which the author received the surname of Death-persuader (Peisithanatos). This book was published at Alexandria, where he was, in consequence, forbidden to teach by king Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 BC).

Lmao

Is that book extant? Sounds like a good read desoo