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Anonymous Sun Oct 14 22:56:53 2018 No.11934836 [Reply] [Original]

Was Epictetus based?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 22:58:32 2018 No.11934846 Yes, possibly the most practical philosopher ever

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 22:59:19 2018 No.11934848 damn the pagans were insensitive as hell i'm glad the christians burned most of that old misogynist bullshit! too bad they didnt do a better job and eradicate it all

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 23:00:01 2018 No.11934852 He was based in Greece.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 23:01:49 2018 No.11934861 >>11934836 why can't you properly screenshot a page?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 23:04:14 2018 No.11934870 >>11934861 Dunno how on a Kindle fire

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 23:05:31 2018 No.11934880 >>11934846 He says some divine mumbo jumbo every now and then, but yeah, I agree that he's shit is practical.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:20:14 2018 No.11935227
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>>11934836
Most definitely.
The Enchiridion is one of the most wisdom dense books ever written and its only about ~20 pages.
The man was born a slave, gained his freedom, created a school for teaching practical life wisdom, never published anything, and yet students felt what he had to say was so valuable that we still have records of over 500+ pages of things he talked about.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:27:44 2018 No.11935261 File: 50 KB, 475x654, 11111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Epictetus >Epic Now THIS is epic

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 00:35:40 2018 No.11935282 >>11934836 It feels good to continue the in the tradition of using an insult now at least two millennia old

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:11:30 2018 No.11935424 >>11934836 First documented case of “neck yourself”?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:25:11 2018 No.11935457 >>11935424 This is exactly what I was thinking anon. Now I feel bad badass everytime I say that to someone on a Cambodian beetle fighting forum.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:26:22 2018 No.11935462 >>11935261 Go hang yourself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:43:42 2018 No.11935528 File: 33 KB, 754x507, file-20180724-194128-16o7vkd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11934836 Epictetus was one of the few philosophers that were both profound and practical. Good choice OP, you weren't a faggot today.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 01:50:37 2018 No.11935555 >>11934836 Is that the Oxford version, OP? I have that translation, great stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:02:06 2018 No.11935903 What are some other philosophers with a similar worldview and sense of humor as Epictetus? I like his style of transmitting ideas.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:13:54 2018 No.11935922 >>11934836 post full context pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 09:24:13 2018 No.11936595 >>11935903 Marcus Aurelius Seneca maybe Plotinus Just read Pierre Hadot's books

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:28:34 2018 No.11936803 File: 40 KB, 340x565, 4ABBCE9F-0AAC-4A08-A1C7-ED26972E9E49.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11934846 >>11934880 >>11935227 >>11935528 >practical

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:29:40 2018 No.11936808 >>11934836 1st century metrosexuals on suicide watch.

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