Antisthenes

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• ATAscetic Tendency

  9 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  8 / 10
• SSSovereign Self

  8 / 10
• WPWill to Power

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Diogenes of SinopeHAMMER

  Lived in a barrel. Called himself a citizen of the cosmos. Rejected convention to live according to nature.

• Emma GoldmanPILGRIM

  Anarchism and Other Essays — liberty answerable only to itself.

• Linji YixuanHAMMER

  Rinzai Zen — kill the Buddha if you meet him; nothing to find.

• Auguste BlanquiHAMMER

  Revolutionary by trade — eternity by the stars in a prison cell.

• Paul FeyerabendPILGRIM

  Against Method — anything goes; epistemological anarchism.

• Henry David ThoreauPILGRIM

  Walden — simplify, simplify; conscience over civil law.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Antisthenes's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.