Like Socrates, Diogenes favoured living dialogue over the ... He was, I think, a shining example of the Art of Failure. Neel Burton is author of The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide.

For Socrates, famously, the unexamined life was not worth living. Diogenes went one step further ... of society in pointed jokes, performance art, or radical experiments in living is not ...

Was he truly dangerous, or a scapegoat for Athens' post-war collapse? Explore the charges and the city's turmoil.

Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato, who once called him "a Socrates gone mad." After being exiled from his native Sinope for having defaced its coinage, Diogenes ...

Like Socrates, Diogenes favoured living dialogue over the ... He was, I think, a shining example of the Art of Failure. Neel Burton is author of The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide.