So it seems that in order to deal with this crucial problem of the country, in order to get rid of the only and biggest obstacle in front of our sacred march to the future, and our spectacular leap forward in science the statue of Diogenes must be removed.
We will do our utmost to make this happen…” We are appealing for the removal of the statue of Diogenes from the entrance of Sinop and its relocation. We are against gluing Greek philosophy, Greek ideology and Sinop together while hiding behind the statue. The Provincial Office of the Erbakan Foundation in Sinop issued a press statement in front of the statue of Diogenes in Sinop: “We are not against art and statues. We remember Diogenes once again nearly 2,400 years after his death because of a cry of rebellion rising from his hometown, Sinop. So you might ask why I have brought up the issue. We are neither close to the date of his birth or the date of his death. He was captured by pirates and sold as a slave to a Corinthian, yet his master was a clever man and hired his “slave” to tutor his children and thus, the philosopher passed away in peace and prosperity.īefore dying, Diogenes asked to be thrown outside the city wall so that wild animals could merrily eat his body parts, though Corinthians preferred to erect a pillar in his memory. He went to Athens, was taught by Antisthenes (a former pupil of Socrates), espoused his teacher’s cynic philosophy, and advocated and implemented the teachings of cynicism.īelieving that virtue glorifies humans, the cynics reject property, possession and institutions such as family.ĭiogenes questioned moral and material rules, presupposition and imposition lived by pushing people’s patience to the limits through his intelligent, humorous and controversial nature… There are various stories, but it is thought he had to leave his hometown after his father became embroiled in a currency debasement scandal. It was only natural for them to label the man who, as one would say in modern slang, “dissed” Alexander the Great, asking the ruler to “stand out of sunlight.”Īs you know, our guy, Diogenes, is from Sinop, the Black Sea town of Turkey. Maybe they considered Diogenes mad because he lived in a barrel, did not care about possessions, was out at the elbows… Or because he strolled around the city squares in daylight with a lamp, saying, “I am just looking for an honest man”… When asked about Diogenes, Plato described the philosopher as “a Socrates gone mad.”ĭiogenes was considered mad because he threw people’s contradictions, hypocrisy and double standards in their faces…
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