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    1) Democritus' ethical fragments were preserved through their inclusion in collections like Stobaeus' because the Cynics had an interest in his works. The Cynics rejected teleology like Democritus and found value in his emphasis on hardship, self-sufficiency, and distinguishing the wise from fools. 2) Laughter at the foolishness of the world was a characteristic of both the Cynics and Skeptics, and the story of Democritus' laughter may have been created and contrasted with the "Stoic" Heraclitus by someone in the circle of Menippus. 3) It is difficult to reconstruct the form of Democritus' original works based on fragments preserved

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    1) Democritus' ethical fragments were preserved through their inclusion in collections like Stobaeus' because the Cynics had an interest in his works. The Cynics rejected teleology like Democritus and found value in his emphasis on hardship, self-sufficiency, and distinguishing the wise from fools. 2) Laughter at the foolishness of the world was a characteristic of both the Cynics and Skeptics, and the story of Democritus' laughter may have been created and contrasted with the "Stoic" Heraclitus by someone in the circle of Menippus. 3) It is difficult to reconstruct the form of Democritus' original works based on fragments preserved

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    1) Democritus' ethical fragments were preserved through their inclusion in collections like Stobaeus' because the Cynics had an interest in his works. The Cynics rejected teleology like Democritus and found value in his emphasis on hardship, self-sufficiency, and distinguishing the wise from fools. 2) Laughter at the foolishness of the world was a characteristic of both the Cynics and Skeptics, and the story of Democritus' laughter may have been created and contrasted with the "Stoic" Heraclitus by someone in the circle of Menippus. 3) It is difficult to reconstruct the form of Democritus' original works based on fragments preserved

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    “Democritus and the Cynics” Zeph Stewart

    179: “why such an extraordinary number of short ethical fragments of Democritus were ready at
    hand for inclusion in Stobaeus’ collection, and why indeed these same and many other
    statements attributed to him are to be found in such profusion in other gnomologies. It is easy to
    see how his physical and epistemological fragments were preserved in large part by the interest
    which Aristotle and his school took in reporting and refuting them, but neither Plato (who does
    not mention Democritus) not Aristotle shows any knowledge of his ethics”.
    181: Cínico Demetrio, rechazo de los estuidos, es citado por Séneca en De Beneficiis, 7.1.3, en
    donde Demetrio cita a Demócrito
    184: “it was among the Cynics and their allies that his fragments were preserved during the
    period” (de Demetrio)
    Influencia de Demócrito en los cínicos: “The most important parallel of attitude is the rejection
    of a general teleological principle, a rejection which provided common ground for Cynics,
    Sceptics, Cyrenaics and Epicureans
    185: “Cynic attacks on logical studies, on established religion, on all varieties of divination are
    assaults on important Stoic interests”
    “Of more specific Cynic interest is Democritus’ valuation of πόνος and αὐτάρκεια –both Cynic
    bywords- and of ἀθαμβία, his concern with τύχη, his use of animals as examples, his mention of
    Aesop, and especially his repeated contrasts between wise men and fools”. “The active Cynic
    interest in this earliest stage of prose gnomologies might explain the popularity of Democritus in
    the later and derivative collections”.
    “The valuation of pleasure in several fragments seems to fit no more easily into the Cynic
    outlook” “Just as contradictory trains in the two pictures of Diogenes –the ‘tough’ and the
    hedonistic- fell into an easy union”.
    186: “Laughter at the foolishness of the world is in itself a characteristically Cynic and Sceptic
    trait”. La historia de la risa de Demócrito.
    187: “someone within the general circle of Menippus created the ‘Cynic’ Democritus and
    contrasted him with the ‘Stoic’ Heraclitus” Risa de Demócrito: “Diogenes Laertius, usually a
    chief purveyor of such tales and traits, appears not to know the story of the laughter” “Travels in
    Egypt or Persia were a commonplace in accounts of the early philosophers, but only in the case
    of Democritus do we find reports of contact with the Indian Gymnosophists”.
    188: “One should proceed with as little confidence to reconstruct the form of Democritus’ works
    from the gnomologies as the poem of Parmenides or of Empedocles from the doxographers”.

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