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HANDBOOK OF EPICTETUS Translated, with introduction and annotations, by NICHOLAS WHITE Introduction Handbook of Epictetus Introduction We can both examine this question and take a first look at Epictetus' views at the same time. Perhaps the most succinct statement of his view of the best possible condition for a human being to be in is given by c. 8 of the Handbook Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. Epictetus is here not claiming that if you adopt this attitude then external events in the world will go well for you, but that the best possible human condition, not being a matter of such external events but of one's state of mind, precisely is one of adopting just this attitude. This appears to be much the same thought that motivated the statement by Zeno that the end or telos of a human being's life is to be in accord or agreement with nature (cf., e.g., cc. 4, 30). The problem, however, concerns just what this thought amounts to, and whether it is really the same in Epictetus as it was in Zeno. If we look at it in the following way, which seems to me correct, it does appear to be the same idea in both, up to a point. The basic idea is that for a human being to be in an ideal state is to lack all dissatisfaction with anything about the world, while at the same time being conscious and intelligent. One way of doing this might be to satisfy all of one's desires; but the Stoics held, not unreasonably, that a human being is by nature unable to do this, both because one's powers are so limited and because desires, at least for certain things, are unlimited by anything except life span. Therefore, in the passage quoted, Epictetus recommends against this way. The other way, rather than altering the external world to bring it into line with one's desires, is to set those desires so that they are in line with the, way the external world actually is. This is the way that the Stoics recommend, and thus far Zeno and Epictetus seem to be in agreement.

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EPICTETUS (ca. A.D. 50-ca. 130) BIOGRAPHY Epictetus was born a slave in Hierapolis, a small town in Phrygia, Asia Minor (in present-day Turkey). His master was Epaphroditus, a member of Emperor Nero's personal staff in Rome . As was often done at that time, Epaphroditus saw to it that Epictetus had a good education, sending him to study with the Roman Stoic , Rufus. Founded by Zeno of Citium (336-265 B.C.), the Stoic school received its name from the columned "porch" stoa, where Zeno had taught. The Stoics held that human life should be lived in harmony with nature, regardless of what life may bring: a reassuring doctrine for a slave such as Epictetus. But Epictetus did not remain a slave, gaining his freedom sometime after the death of Nero in A.D. 68. He began to teach until A.D. 89 or 93 when Emperor Domitian expelled all the philosophers from Rome . Domitian seems to have been especially angry with the Stoics for teaching that sovereignty comes from God and is for the benefit of the people. (Epictetus' reported claim that he had the same regard for the emperor as for his water-pot could not have helped.) Epictetus moved to Nicropolis in Epirus (northwestern Greece), where he established a thriving

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Epictetus (c.55-135) Stoic philosopher from Hierapolis (today's Turkey) who originally was a slave to one of emperor Neros men. He managed to buy his freedom, and moved to Greece after this. Epictetus wrote about morality and humanity, and said there are two things one should learn in order to lead a rightheous life: to endure and to abstain. He believed there was a benevolent power that ultimately led everything to good. Before going to Greece he taught in Rome for some time, but was exiled by the emperor Domitian in AD 90 who was afraid of the stoic techings. Epictetus went to live in Nicopolis on Epirus, where he spent the rest of his life. Epictetus taught that humans were irrational beings, unable to control their destiny, but that the universe was unlimited and ruled by the pure reason of God. People must calmly accept their own powerlessness before fate. Also, he taught, humans must be tolerant of each others faults, since we are all so imperfect. "One must not tie a ship

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Bozarth on Epictetus by G. Richard Bozarth What makes this truth insidious is that if a person really obeys such a program for living, she becomes no good. If she thinks injustice only seems to be evil if an individual has the opinion that injustice is evil, she will surely be indifferent to injustice done by government to citizens. If she thinks poverty only seems to be evil if an individual has the opinion that poverty is evil, she will surely be indifferent to the plight of the poor even if many of the poor are victims of corrupt economic policies that rig the system to ensure that some minorities have no or very little chance to escape poverty. If she thinks slavery only seems to be evil if an individual has the opinion that slavery is evil, she will surely be indifferent tr culture. This is a terrible way to be. This is to be a passive welcome mat for all those who hate civil liberties and wish to be tyrants. All the good done in the world is done by those who care about externals, who are not indifferent to injustice, poverty, slavery, murder, and all the other bad things Epictetus taught his students to cease to care about. No good citizen should be happy when her government is unjust or when her culture has institutions that victimize portions of the population who are despised by a bigoted majority. We have the power to change things for the better. This far nobler truth is one reason why there is a Freethought Movement. All the champions of Freethought who throughout the centuries have worked magnificently to make our culture into one defined by justice and civil liberties were not and are not people who could or can cheerfully or indifferently accept oppressive or repressive or suppressive externals, and they did more good for us all than Epictetus and any student who accepted his teaching ever did.

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Epictetus (c.55-c.135 CE.) Hadr. 16), that Epictetus lived on terms of intimacy with the emperor Hadrian. It is true that his discourses contain frequent references to Nicopolis, and no internal evidence that they were delivered in Rome. However, this is not sufficient to overthrow the testimony of Spartianus. It is not known when he died. Suidas says that he lived till the reign of Marcus Aurelius, yet the authority or Aulus Gellius is strong on the other side. He, writing during the reign of the first Antonine, speaks of Epictetus, in two places, as being dead ( Noct. Att. ii. 8; xvii. 19). Epictetus led a life of exemplary contentment, simplicity, and virtue, practicing the morality which he taught. He lived in a small hut for a long while, with no other furniture than a bed and a lamp, and without an attendant. He benevolently adopted a child whom a friend had been compelled by poverty to give up; he also hired a nurse to look after the child. Epictetus was the most dominant teacher of Stoicism during the period of the Roman Empire. His lessons were principally, if not solely, directed to practical morality. His favorite maxim, and that into which he resolved all practical morality, was "bear and forbear," ( anexou kai apexou ). He appears to have differed from the Stoics on the subject of suicide, which he condemned. We are told by Arrian, in his Preface to the

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59. Epictetus epictetus. previous chapter Cicero. If anybody advanced philosophy among the Romans it was epictetus, and even he only in the realm of ethics. http://www.abacci.com/history/history.aspx?historyID=221

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FROM THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EPICTETUS Volume I. Discourses, Books 1-2 Translated by W. A. Oldfather Like the early Stoics, Epictetus (ca 55-135 A.D. ) taught the importance of control over one's own mind and will; since happiness must not depend on things one cannot control, the virtuous person should aspire to become independent of external circumstances. The brotherhood of man is also central to his teaching, reflecting the Stoic belief that there is a spark of divinity in everyone. Unlike his predecessors, Epictetus, who grew up as a slave, taught not for the select few but for the many and the humble. This two-volume edition contains the extant record of his lecturesin lively and informal styleas well as the Manual or Encheiridion , a summary of Epictetus's thought by the historian Arrian, a student of his. OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY EPICTETUS Volume II. Discourses, Books 3-4. Fragments. The Encheiridion Index 256 pages Hardcover edition December 1969 ISBN 0-674-99145-1

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