Word: epictetus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cynics were a branch of the Stoics as shown by the fact that Epictetus, the great Cynic leader, was sometimes called a Cynic, sometimes a Stoic...
...Epictetus flourished shortly after St. Paul and we find him the noblest representative of Cynicism...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...