Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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... Epictetus attended the lectures of the fashionable Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus . Obtaining his free- dom about the year 89 , he set up as a street - corner teacher ... Epictetus and of Marcus Aurelius , it proved 234 EPICTETUS.
... Epictetus attended the lectures of the fashionable Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus . Obtaining his free- dom about the year 89 , he set up as a street - corner teacher ... Epictetus and of Marcus Aurelius , it proved 234 EPICTETUS.
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... Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.1 From the Enchiridion it is easy to see why " stoic " has become the word for a person who can endure pain without flinching . Socrates is frequently held up by the Stoics as the model for imitation . But ...
... Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.1 From the Enchiridion it is easy to see why " stoic " has become the word for a person who can endure pain without flinching . Socrates is frequently held up by the Stoics as the model for imitation . But ...
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... you should be missing when called for . VIII Demand not that events should happen as you wish ; but wish them to happen as they do happen , and you will go on well . IX Sickness is an impediment to the body , but 238 Epictetus.
... you should be missing when called for . VIII Demand not that events should happen as you wish ; but wish them to happen as they do happen , and you will go on well . IX Sickness is an impediment to the body , but 238 Epictetus.
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