I have brought you Plato's man.” Plato consequently refined his definition, adding to it "with broad nails." Like Socrates, Diogenes favoured living dialogue over the dead word. When a certain ...

I have brought you Plato's man.” Plato consequently refined his definition, adding to it "with broad nails." One day, Diogenes asked Plato for a handful of figs from his garden. When Plato had a ...

As a young man, Diogenes began working with his ... s academy to contest the famed philosopher’s definition of a human. Because Plato had once defined a human as a “featherless biped animal ...

What we know of Diogenes’s philosophy has been preserved in stories about his life. His philosophical interactions were often comic. When Plato defined man as the featherless biped—so it’s ...