苏格拉底的学生，犬儒学派的奠基人。极端追求灵魂的自足与纯洁，鄙视世俗的财富、权力与名誉。
One of Socrates' most distinguished later disciples and founding figure of Cynicism. Originally a celebrated rhetorician, he was so overwhelmed by Socrates' character that he abandoned rhetoric, walking barefoot many miles daily to pursue philosophical self-mastery.
Antisthenes pushed Socratic self-control and self-sufficiency to its radical extreme. He rejected the entire apparatus of civic life—wealth, social status, privilege, and convention—as parasitic chains on the soul. The virtuous person should live like a wild dog, stripped of worldly attachments. Virtue alone, achieved through extreme willful self-discipline, is the soul's true wealth, sufficient to withstand any worldly adversity.
"I would rather howl in the wilderness than bow before worldly vanity and status. Virtue is the only armor that God esteems."
审视安提斯泰尼对物质生活和身份虚荣那几乎绝缘的鄙夷：我们在今天这个为了房子面积、名誉排位和同辈压力疲于奔命、焦虑透支的生存系统里，我们需要割舍丢掷多少无用而沉重的‘无聊虚荣包裹’，精简自身包袱，才能换回哪怕一点点属于灵魂自己的真实轻松？
Both were students of Socrates, yet Aristippus held that maximizing present sensory pleasure is life's highest aim and lived as a courtier to tyrants. Antisthenes denounced pleasure as poison, insisting that yielding to sensory gratification enslaves the soul, and chose austere self-sufficiency instead.
Is liberation better achieved by maximizing the means to purchase pleasure, or by eliminating desire so that one needs nothing from the world?
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