I am still looking for a man, not just a featherless biped.

Cynic philosopher

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His retort to Plato's definition of man as a 'featherless biped' when Diogenes brought a plucked chicken to Plato's lecture.

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c. 350 BCE

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42079/42079-h/42079-h.htm

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