Epictetus · Philosophy

Philosophy as Daily Practice

Epictetus’s insistence that philosophy is not what you profess but what you do - a discipline drilled into the soul by daily exercise until it becomes the way you live.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Epictetus’s conviction that philosophy must be practised, not merely professed - judged by conduct, not words. Seneca, the other great Roman Stoic, taught the same through his Letters. State how Seneca framed philosophy as a way of life.

Leads to Seneca.

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