Epicteti Dissertationes AB Arriano Digestae Ad Fidem Codicis Bodleiani Recensuit Henricus Schenkl: Accedunt Fragmenta, Enchiridion Ex Recensione Schweighaevseri, Gnomologiorum Epicteterrum Reliquiae

by Epictetus

Excerpt from Epicteti Dissertationes Ab Arriano Digestae Ad Fidem Codicis Bodleiani Recensuit Henricus Schenkl

Unum est 'quod addam. J. L. G. Mowat Britannus in ephemeride cui inscribitur Journal of Philology (a. 1877 p. 60 sqq.) de codicis Bodleiani lacuna illa disseruit, sed ita, ut nusquam conceptis verbis aÂ…aret immo ne adum bra.ret quidem librum Oxoniensem ceterorum chirographo rum esse archetypum. At sero per litteras et per collo qun facultatem edoctus sum re vera virum doctum hoc indagasse sibi visum esse. Quod si antea comperissem, numquam certe istius inventi laudem mihi vindicassem. Nunc vero quantumcumque meriti id ipsum habet pri mum hanc rem perspexisse viri illius manibus sollemniter ac libenter concedo.

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Published August 24, 2018

About the author

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

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