Enchiridion
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What is Controlling What?
What has come to be known as the Dichotomy of Control is a naïve misinterpretation of the opening of Epictetus’s Enchiridion. This is a short debunking of it. This is the popular rendering of the opening of the Enchiridion, however this particular wording is unattributed. (Nobody knows who produced this, it is not Elizabeth Carter… Continue reading
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The Enchiridion, Or Manual, Of Epictetus by Elizabeth Carter (1758)
There is a very a popular version of Enchiridion on the internet attributed to Elizabeth Carter which is not authentic. This is her work. “Of things, some are in our power and others not” Continue reading
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The Handpage to the Handbook of Epictetus
Living a good life requires a good understanding of Nature, the living world, and our place in it. This requires the best possible knowledge of the value and appropriate uses of, and responses to, what we encounter in the world, for our own benefit and the common good. The accuracy and coherence of our evaluative… Continue reading