odwaga-i-dzialanie: Epiktet

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Are There Lessons for Us to Learn?. This chapter draws eight conclusions from previous chapters for contemporary use. The first is that a kind of “blockage” has occurred, whereby powerful interest groups grow stronger and defend their wealth and privileges by blocking essential change and innovation. The second conclusion points out that it is possible to overcome a crisis if there are strong institutions that can be used by a self-aware political elite capable of understanding that change is necessary. The third is that moderate liberals usually emerge in the early stages of revolution, but are apt to be marginalized later on. The fourth adds that people from other political alignments als…

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El Relato de un Proceso: "Signs that Say what You Want them to Say and not Signs that Say what Someone Else Wants You to Say" (1992-93) de Gillian Wearing. El presente artículo es una aproximación al proyecto Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-93), de G. Wearing, a partir del relato del proceso o la historia del proyecto. Conversaciones con la artista, publicadas entre 1997 y 1999, nos permiten la reconstrucción del proceso a fin de aprehender, desde una perspectiva más amplia, una obra de referencia para la práctica artística actual.

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51: How to Say What You Want to Say

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Epictetus and Moral Apprehensive Impressions in Stoicism. The only person who possesses knowledge and virtue, and whose every action is always morally right, is the Sage, the ideal person used by the Stoics as a paradigm in arguing for the possibility of achieving epistemic and moral perfection.1 The foundation for the Sage' s epistemic perfection was the so-called "apprehensive impression" (phantasia kataleptike), the only type of impression whose propositional content is such that it could not turn out false and which, because of this, unmistakably represents the thing that caused the impression.2Our sources have preserved relatively elaborate accounts of how the Stoics thought apprehensi…

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Spiritual Exercises in Epictetus: Difficult but Justified. The goal of this chapter is descriptive in nature.I hope to outline Epictetus' intellectualism, and to determine what exactly this intellectualism entails, and what it commits him to.I will then develop what influence this intellectualism has had on how Epictetus conceives of human psychology, more specifically the nature of beliefs, belief formation, and belief modification.As such, this chapter will be divided into four parts: i.. Year: 2016

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Phantasia, Phainomenon and Dogma in Epictetus. This paper aims at evaluating the relation between the concepts of phantasia, phainomenon and dogma in Epictetusʼ thought.To do that, we will divide our work in four main parts.In the first, we will present the fundamentals of the Stoic concept of phantasia and its related notions.In the second part, we will review and study the main translations of Encheiridion 1.5, trying to understand the meaning of phainomenon, where it is linked with the concept of phantasia.In the third part, we will study Epictetusʼ views about phantasia and its related concepts.In the fourth part, we will survey the occurrences of the words dogma and hypolepsis in Epict…

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Epictetus as Socratic mentor. In Tom Wolfe's most recent novel,A Man In Full, a young Californian, down on his luck, converts a macho sixty-year old tycoon, facing financial ruin, to Stoicism. The young man, Conrad, has miraculously escaped from the Santa Rita gaol as a result of an earthquake. Shortly before, he had discovered Epictetus in a book calledThe Stoics, a book he had been sent mistakenly in place of a riveting thriller by his favourite author with the title,The Stoics' Game. He rapidly comes across this passage: ‘I [Zeus] gave you a portion of our divinity, a spark from our own fire, the power to act and not to act, the will to get and the will to avoid. If you pay heed to this,…