The biggest idea I found on most of this sections of the Epictetus handbook was that things don’t have to be seen as they are, but you should interpret them as better fits the situation you are in. Also I think it’s very strange the way the author sees lie. "For this is your business, to act well the character assigned you; to choose it is another's." (1) the idea that what you are you have to be and you simply have to act that way no matter what, is very different from my perspective. To me you become what you work for and you get a reward in life for what you do. not like Epictetus says that life is just an act.
Epictetus sates a very interesting idea that I really liked in section twenty when he says that: "When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you."(1) I liked the way he says that you should not listen to insults people tell you because it’s just the way you feel about them that makes you mad. There is no real insult if you don’t interpret it as such. What was Epictetus style of life? Why did he develop such ideas?
Epictetus view of the family is the most interesting thing so far. the way he thinks children should be totally devoted to their father and he says if you have a bad father not all people can have good fathers. This is really interesting because he views family in a very different way as we do and like he said in the previous sections if you are not too fond of a family member you won’t care on loosing it.
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1. http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html (its another translation of the handbook)
Epictetus sates a very interesting idea that I really liked in section twenty when he says that: "When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you."(1) I liked the way he says that you should not listen to insults people tell you because it’s just the way you feel about them that makes you mad. There is no real insult if you don’t interpret it as such. What was Epictetus style of life? Why did he develop such ideas?
Epictetus view of the family is the most interesting thing so far. the way he thinks children should be totally devoted to their father and he says if you have a bad father not all people can have good fathers. This is really interesting because he views family in a very different way as we do and like he said in the previous sections if you are not too fond of a family member you won’t care on loosing it.
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1. http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html (its another translation of the handbook)
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I hope to see your Eliot entries.
I also like Epicetus' ideas about families. In only wish you would have analyzed it further.
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