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He believed that philosophy should be studied by those who
want to be friends with gods, and rhetoric by those who want to
be friends with people. He was a disciple of Socrates, whom he
admired and highly esteemed. He founded a school that focused
on ethics, on discovery and implementation of correct conduct.
His students had part in the creation of stoic ethics of reserved
behavior and dutifulness. His philosophic position advocated
simplicity of existence. He illustrated this with the example of a
sage who acted in line with his moral strength as an expression
of strong will and relentless ethics.
Antisthenes believed that the archenemy of virtue were the
pleasures of the senses that disrupted the person’s spiritual
balance.
In the future, dialectical realism will guide people to humaneness.
Antisthenes thought that, “A state that no longer makes
difference between capable and incapable people will
collapse.”
Good people stay away from bad people and bad people cross
over to the side of good people when the interest of both groups
is the same. The platform of equality and goodness diminishes
evil and inequality because common interest creates unified
development of the whole.
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