Word: epictetus
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...actually live as he desires. This is the position of Hobbes, for example, who views all laws as an infringement upon freedom. The second basic definition of freedom characterizes it as an acquired state of mind, and Adler dubs those who uphold it the self-perfectionists. Epictetus, who was once a slave but considered his spirit free, would fall under this category. The third position, which Adler calls the "natural freedom of self-determination." is defined as an individual's ability to determine for himself-though not necessarily to carry out-what he wishes to do or to become...
...There still are a few. * Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein...
...Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to become president of Union Theologic Seminary (TIME, Nov. 15), his old congregation has been as unhappy as a household with a cook about leave. The trustees, fed for 22 years on Dr. Coffin's fare of thought, have sought for some young Epictetus to take his place and last week they named their choice...
...soft chant of "come 'leven" and rumbling of ivory over wood. Pay nineteen! We wonder if this change has been all for the good. This new method of removing undergraduate inhibitions has certain disadvantages over the old. "A big head is better than an empty purse" is attributed to Epictetus. The road to freedom from the worries of exams and cuts is much smoother when it runs through fragrant vineyards than when it winds across the chequered fields of chance...
...Homes" (group of 10), Hollis 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16; "Lionel Pfeffer," Thayer 1, 2, 4; "Cyanides," Holworthy 1, 2; "Huachuca," Thayer 11, 12; "Atos Portos et Aramis," Thayer 60, 65, 66; "Hillcroft," Holworthy 12; "Tom Dodge," Holworthy 19; "Oedipus and Nicias," Stoughton 6; "Sebastian Cabot," Stoughton 13; "Epictetus," Thayer 62; High brow Handful," Thayer 39, 41, 43; "Pelleas et Melisande," Thayer 40; "H2S7," Thayer 44; "Class Corpses," Thayer 38; "Peter Pan," Thayer...