422: cynic Feb 3, 2016

Cynicism is the belief that humans are only motivated by their own respective interest. This was not just a school of thought but an actual school, so to speak. 'Cynic' comes from the Greek word, 'kunikos' is thought to be diminutive of 'Kunosarges', which was the name of a gymnasium where Antisthenes, the first cynical philosopher taught. The word commonly meant ‘doglike, churlish,’ and 'kuōn, kun-' which actually means ‘dog’ becoming a nickname for a Cynic.