Epictetus : (c.55-c.135), Phrygian Stoic philosopher remembered for the religious tone of his teachings, which commended him to numerous early Christian thinkers. He wrote nothing; his teachings were set down by his disciple Arrian.
... It is here that we come to appreciate the rationale Page 104 and usefulness of the stoics, particularly the Stoics of ancient philosophers of Greece and Rome, such as Zeno, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The attitudes and experiences which they have described refer in varying degrees to these three stages. In the first stage, Stoic equality is the equality of that comes by the... manifest judgements and that these judgements are often erroneous and that consequently, they should be subordinated or eliminated by the attitude and practice of endurance. One is the reminded of Epictetus who had been a slave and his leg broken. In a dialogue which he imagines, he states: "I will fetter you?" "What did you say man?" "Fetter me?" "You fetter my leg, but my will not even... yogic language, the state of permanency of the higher and higher states of Yoga is called realisation. 7 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.20, pp.63 8 Epictetus 1.1.23 9 Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, paperback edition, 1996, p.270 10 William James: Varieties of Religious Experience, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, paperback ...
... equality that comes by resignation to the Divine Will. It is here that we come to appreciate the rationale and usefulness of the Stoics, particularly, the Stoics of ancient Europe, such as Zeno, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The attitudes and experiences which they have described refer in varying degrees to these three stag65 of equality. In the first stage. Stoic equality is the equality Page... emotions manifest judgements and that these judgements are often erroneous and that consequently, they should be subordinated or eliminated by the attitude and practice of endurance. One is reminded of Epictetus who had been a slave and his leg broken. In a dialogue which he imagines, he states: I must die. But must It die groaning? I must be imprisoned. But must I whine as well? I must suffer exile ...
... our faces now change (although so little and so imperfectly) according to our emotions: the body will be made of concentrated energy obeying the will. Instead of being, in the powerful words of Epictetus, "a little soul carrying a corpse," 341 we will become a living soul in a living body. It is not just the body and the mind that will have to change with the supramental consciousness, but also ...
... Dutt, Michael Madhusudan, 25,49,50 Dutt, Romesh Chunder, 11, 81fn, 83, 662 Eknath, 9 Eliot, T. S., 209,294, 318,491, 513,535 Englishman, The, I'll, 340 Epictetus, 48 Eric, 119,141ff, 642,646; set in Norwegian Heroic Age, 141; gods active behind the scenes, 142; Aslaug and Hamlet, 145; not Thor but Freya, 145 Essays on the Gita, 283, 404 ...
... attracted to metaphysics, and he found the disputes of dialectical ratiocination too abstract, abstruse and generally inconclusive. Before coming to Baroda, he had read something of Plato, as well as Epictetus and the Lucretian statement of the ideas of Epicurus. Only such philosophical ideas as could be made dynamic for life interested him. Beyond a nodding acquaintance with the broad ideas of certain ...
... divergent is it from that of the English language. Page 468 × The form of the question reminds one of Epictetus' definition of man, "Thou art a little soul carrying about a corpse." Some of our readers may be familiar with Swinburne's adaptation of the saying, "A little soul for a little bears up the corpse ...
... with a complete and revealing force. For here it is the spirit that carries the form, while in most Western art it is the form that carries whatever there may be of spirit. The striking phrase of Epictetus recurs to the mind in which he describes man as a little soul carrying a corpse, psucharion ei bastazon nekron . The more ordinary Western outlook is upon animate matter carrying in its life a modicum ...
... impress I rashly started writing at the age of 18 an explanation of the cosmos on the foundation of the principle of Beauty and Harmony, but I never got beyond the first three or four chapters. I read Epictetus and was interested in the ideas of the Stoics and the Epicureans; but I made no study of Greek philosophy or of any of the [? ]. I made in fact no study of metaphysics in my school and College days ...
... full knowledge and bliss can be her portion. To deliver the soul as far as possible from the body even in this life — this, then, is the paramount task of mankind. The Dissertations of Epictetus reveals a curious scorn for the body. According to him, it 'does not belong to us, but is an allo-trion' (alien, foreign). Man is 'a soul carrying a corpse' (cf. Svava-puḥ kuṇapamiva dṛśyate ...
... when our grandmothers rode about in carriages, corseted in a perpetual Sunday, but now, at last, everything is laid bare, swarming and maskless, like vermin on a corpse – which we have always been. Epictetus already knew it, who was taken away to Rome as a slave: “A little soul carrying a corpse.” There is nowhere to take us as slaves: we are proper slaves everywhere. And because the present time is ...
... congress of the world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah, Omar Khayyam, Pythagoras, Kant, Firdausi, Ramakrishna, Vivek ananda , Pasteur, Giordano Bruno and Antoine the ...
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