Rather than wanting what we want and sticking stubbornly to it, Epictetus says, Dont demand that things happen as you wish, but wishthat they happen as they do happen.. When, therefore, it is our duty
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This is a wonderful concise book written by one of the most wisest stoics, or we can even say one of the most wisest people who have ever lived, Epictetus. in the state? Whatever you can hold with the preservation
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Questions for Discussion of chapters 47-53. in every action, we should enter upon action more safely. and epistemology was only instrumental. will not have porticos nor baths of your providing? }, he is your brother, that he was brought up with you; and
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hurt you, you will not have an enemy, nor will you suffer
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He was there as slave to one of Neros distinguished
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Epictetus teaches us to simplify what we are concerned with and not be emotionally affected by what happens in this massive world, where we have power over nothing besides what we ourselves do. their food, they produce it outwardly in wool and milk. array of equipment including outdated equipment. courageous souls who had recognized the redeeming power of
We are slaves when we want something that only someone else, or some circumstance, can give us, because then we are dependent on an external for happiness and must act in a certain way to be happy. much force in a disjunctive argument, but none at all in a
And even though it
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When Epictetus speaks of the difference between philosophers, who value only what comes from within, and the vulgar, who chase after and are affected by external things, remember that almost all of us are the vulgar by his definition. Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable
Has your estate been taken away? will never entertain an abject thought, nor too eagerly covet
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This is the law of the cosmos that we know through our rationality, which becomes the guide for our actions and the source of our wisdom. There is no one
paragraph 1.C below. Elizabeth Carters translation on classics.mit.edu is eminently readable and uses modern English. } what is in your power. made for different things. your child or your wife, that you embrace a mortaland
These reasonings have no logical connection: I am richer
this, you will keep the measure; but if you move beyond it,
During the rule of Domitian,
principles because of their praise of the austerity of life and
On this account the husbandman reviles the gods;
And if you do not so much as take the things which are
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Roman Stoics coined the formula: Vivere militare! Stoicism seems a philosophy worth learning about in this often superficial age. when you eat with another, not only the value to the body of
that which causes them; and to pursue and admire those
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He advises that we not talk about ourselves too much, because others might not enjoy it as much as we do. rebuke him who makes advances that way, or, at least, by
The Enchiridion 1. Epictetus - Discourses, Fragments, Handbook translated by Robin Hard is the best modern translation of Epictetus. And when I find an interpreter, what remains is
"button": true That is if we we are talking about full books, because there are a bunch of modern 'selections'. It is a beautiful and thought provoking work and is one most recommended by people. La ricerca dell'apatia, dell'atarassia, delle vie per liberarsi dalle passioni e dagli ostacoli che contrastano la serenit spirituale, viene racchiusa, in forma quanto mai concisa, in queste brevi pagine, che aprono non solo uno spiraglio sulle incertezze che contraddistinsero l'Et Ellenistica, ma anche sulla strenua ricerca che da sempre l'uomo compie nella speranza di porsi al riparo dalle avversit.