intends to promote a blessed life and tells how: "The object and purpose of proposing the cynical philosophy, as indeed all philosophy is proposed , is happiness. However, that happiness consists in living in accordance with nature and not the opinion of the crowd. " Demonax go even further to say that only free men can achieve happiness. Who is surprised at such declaracióny believes should be noted that there are many people happy, the cynical replies, "On the contrary, I think it is only free when he is notexpect nothing and fears nothing. " Despair, then, in the etymological sense: stop waiting to destroy the illusions and myths that exudes the civilizacióny that crystallize through the instruments of conformity and convention. Struggle, in short, against the human tendency to prefer annoying idea we have of reality itself.
Onfray, Michel, cynicism, Portrait of philosophers called dogs. p. 71
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