A most joyous thing to read for an old anarchocynic like myself…
But ‘know thyself” works dialectically in an extraordinary way to make such sundering readings redundant: “for Thales, knowledge of the heavens and self-investigation could proceed directly parallel to each other.” (537)
(Peter) Sloterdijk ends here in a fashion both Heideggerian and kynical, precisely in Diogenes’ spirit.
via Diogenes in the Marketplace.
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