Can Shamelessness Exacerbate the Impact of Shaming? Cynics, Epicureans, and the Notoriety Trap

• In Event: Politics and the Education of the Passions

Brief Overview

Despite the differences between the two schools, the type of shamelessness promoted by the Cynics and Epicureans opens the doors for the only authority left to be feared—the authority of numbers. I call this “the notoriety trap.”

Author

• Alin Fumurescu, University of Houston