![]() ![]() But since everyone is born with some notion of what is good or bad, fine or shameful, right or wrong, each one acts according to his own private impressions as if he knew all. Trained men are unanimous in ideas such as right angles and halftones, to which the ignorant lay no claim. ![]() Philosophy begins, for Epictetus, when one realizes the enormous confusion among men about right and happy living. His influence on Christian thought has been subtle and profound. Among the ancients who admired him are M. There is no trace of Christian influence in his thought although he certainly knew of the "Galileans" ( Disc. Four are extant along with a summary, the Enchiridion, and some fragments. Arrian, his devoted pupil, prepared and published his class notes as eight Discourses. He went to Nicopolis of Epirus near the Ionian Sea and although Hadrian lifted the ban in 117, Epictetus remained in Asia till his death. 90 he was exiled with all the philosophers of Rome by domitian. As a freedman Epictetus opened his own school, but in a.d. He was taken as a slave boy to Rome by Epaphroditus, a servant of the Emperor Nero, and sent to study under M. ![]()
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