Word: epictetus
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Third volume--Plato's "Apology", "Phaedo" and "Crito"; "Golden Sayings" of Epictetus; "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius...
...entitled "The Life, Unpublished Letters and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury." The book is the result of years of investigation among old English manuscripts. Dr. Rand considers Shaftesbury the greatest of modern stoies and his philosophy as the strongest expression of stoicism since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The letters contained in the volume throw much light on Shaftesbury's character and are all in Shaftesburys' best style. It is this portion of the book that is most helpful to the ordinary reader, for it enables him to understand better a great philanthropist, a sound thinker...
...Moralist, as well as throwing light upon an interesting period of English history. The chief value of the publication, however, centers in the Philosophical Regimen, a new presentation of Stoic philosophy. In speaking of its author, Dr. Rand writes that he is the greatest stoic since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius and that into his own life he wrought the stoical "virtue for virtue's sake...
...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...