Epictetus · Philosophy
Epictetus’s first and hardest discipline - to want only what is in our power, and to will what actually happens, so that our desires can never be frustrated.
You learned Epictetus’s discipline of desire: wanting only what is up to us, and willing what happens. Centuries later Spinoza reached a strikingly similar conclusion through pure metaphysics - that freedom lies in understanding and accepting necessity. State Spinoza’s version.
Leads to Spinoza.
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