id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6137 Diogenes - Wikipedia .html text/html 6476 797 70 His father minted coins for a living, and Diogenes was banished from Sinope when he took to debasement of currency.[1] After being exiled, he moved to Athens and criticized many cultural conventions of the city. No writings of Diogenes survive but there are some details of his life from anecdotes (chreia), especially from Diogenes Laƫrtius' book Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers and some other sources.[8] Main article: Diogenes and Alexander In his words, "Humans have complicated every simple gift of the gods."[40] Although Socrates had previously identified himself as belonging to the world, rather than a city,[41] Diogenes is credited with the first known use of the word "cosmopolitan". Diogenes is discussed in a 1983 book by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk (English language publication in 1987). A History of Cynicism from Diogenes to the 6th Century A.D. Cambridge.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) "The Socratic Tradition: Diogenes, Crates, and Hellenistic Ethics". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6137.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6137.txt