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#epictetus
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Epictetus was a slave and I drive the 413. What counts as ‘up to us’ at work?
I drive the 413 across Ankara. Eight hours, two breaks, roughly three hundred passengers a day. I listen to philosophy lectures between stops, and Epictetus is the one I keep coming back to. The Handbook opens by dividing things into what is…
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Reading group: Epictetus, Discourses II.19, where the Master Argument meets a bus driver
I drive the 413 route across Ankara and listen to philosophy lectures between stops. Epictetus is my favourite. Last month a lecture mentioned that the only clear report we have of the "Master Argument" of Diodorus Cronus is at the start of…
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Epictetus says some things are up to us. What did that depend on for him?
I drive a city bus in Ankara and I listen to lectures between stops. Epictetus is my favourite. The Handbook begins by saying some things are up to us and some are not: our opinions, desires and aversions are up to us;…
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