Epictetus · Philosophy

Externals and Inner Freedom

Epictetus’s most radical claim - that no one can enslave the person who has placed their good in their own will, and no one is free who has placed it anywhere else.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Epictetus’s claim that true freedom is inner and untouchable by fortune. Five centuries later, awaiting execution in prison, Boethius dramatized the same lesson by putting the goddess Fortune on trial. State how Boethius framed it.

Leads to Boethius.

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