Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Xenakis, Jason

Titel

Epictetus Philosopher-Therapist

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1969

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• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I. Biography -- 1. Life and Stoicism -- 2. Teaching -- 3. Writings -- 4. Influence -- II. Life a Game -- 5. Living for Happiness -- 6. Suicide, Euthanasia, Death -- 7. Knowledge for Living -- 8. Rational Self -- III. Logical Topics -- 9. Nature of Logical Studies -- 10. Irrefutability and Epistemological Issues -- 11. Logical Puzzles -- 12. Operators and Kin Matters -- IV. Nature and God -- 13. World Structure -- 14. Providence -- 15. Anthropocentrism -- 16. Proofs of Design -- 17. Cacodicy -- 18. Hymns to God -- 19. Zeus Inoperative? -- V. Value Theory -- 20. Theic Notions -- 21. Good a Protoconcept -- 22. Value Relativity -- 23. Value Criteria and Pleasure -- VI. Pain and Training -- 24. Divisions of Ethics -- 25. Learning Theory -- 26. Rationalization and Erring -- 27. Negative Ethics: A Look -- VII. Preventive Ethics -- 28. Forestall, Resist, Ease -- 29. Control Test -- 30. Anxiety and Fear -- 31. Other Safeguards -- 32. Resistance Methods -- VIII. Remedial Devices -- 33. Exampl
• Epictetus presents difficulties for the historiall of ideas. He published nothing, while his so-called writings are mostly notes of so me of his discussions taken down haphazardly by a friend. Moreover, about half of the notes are lost, and little is known of his life. All this may go toward explaining the paucity of Epictetus studies; for indeed this is the first book-length commentary published in English devoted only to hirn. All known aspects of his work are here considered and recon℗Ư structed and freshly approached. Eut the emphasis is on his re℗Ư marks in ethics, for the simple reason that ethics was his dominant interest and that his diagnoses of problems in living and tech℗Ư niques for coping with those problems have been insufficiently appreciated. His ethics is primarily pain-oriented: it consists of existential reminders, such as that things are ephemer al and people vulnerable, plus ways of avoiding and easing distress, induding training and thought-analysis, because he believed that people's troubles stern largely from silly habits and precon℗Ư ceptions