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parents, which is ridiculous even today in developed countries
and cultures. Cupboard love will also belong to the past. One-

sided love is not love. Even St. John Chrysostom said a long time
ago:

“If you want to be loved, love.”

Diogenes tried to reform morality and establish new norms of
conduct that, according to him, would be better and more proper.

He sought to expose the falsity of most conventional standards

and beliefs and to call men back to a simple, natural life.
Tradition ascribes to him the famous search for an honest human

being, conducted in broad daylight, with a lighted lantern.

If Diogenes could be reincarnated, he would be sorry to see that

it took us so much time to make the world a nice place to live.

Socrates (470-399 BCE) used a method of asking his collocutor

a series of questions not only to draw out individual answers but

also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. His
skillfully asked questions helped a person or group to determine

the extent of their own knowledge.

This is a negative method of hypothesis elimination where better

hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating

those that lead to contradictions. It was designed to make a

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