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Epictitus Views on Life
Title: Epictitus Views on Life
Category: History
Details: Words: 1500 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Epictitus Views on Life
To start off, I will review the question “How does Epictetus believe human beings should live? What things does he think we should pursue and what things does he think we should avoid?” Epictetus has one main belief, and that belief is the practice of Stoicism. The Main idea of this practice is that, “some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions – in short whatever is our doing. …showed first 85 words of 1500 total…
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They say that a Stoic should think about death everyday, because death is the harshest external of them all. This would make it easier to resist all other externals. This sounds life a very morbid, and dull life. You go through life being concerned with just yourself and you better not care what your reputation is. I suppose if you just don’t care, then you do have life to look forward too, if you like to be a stoic.
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