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Are We Struggling to Keep Cynicism Alive?
Mariam griffin, can we talk about seneca in that regard? Are we struggling to keep cynicism alive compared with the power of stoicism at that time? Er, i think the er role that andew was mentioning the relationship with stoism is a very interesting one. Some of these features of cynicism answer the objections that the romans felt about stoicism, which was too theoretical. Ar, they thought they didn't have any eloquence, and expressed them sinverin by the stoics. The stoics in very difficult ways, whereas the cynics didn’t do that on molsas Thater epictetus wrote on cynicism at the end of the first century