Epitectus

Epitectus
BorisVM	Epictetus was a Greek philosopher (AD 55 - ca. 135), born in Phrygia, associated with the Stoics. Epictetus means "acquired", his original name is not known. While a slave in Rome he managed to attend lectures on philosophy by the Stoic Musonius Rufus. He later became a freedman, lame and in ill health. There is a story quoted by the early Church Father Origen that when Epitectus was still a slave, he was tortured by his master who twisted his leg. Enduring the pain stoically, Epictetus warned Epaphroditus that his leg would break, and when it did break, he said, "Didn't I tell you that it would break?" From that time Epictetus was lame. Another and much later source attributes his affliction to rheumatism, though. Epictetus spent his whole career teaching philosophy and promoting a daily regime of rigorous self-examination. In AD 89 or 90 he was expelled from Rome and Italy with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian. The rest of his life Epictetus spent at Nicopolis, Greece, where he had his own school. It got a good reputation and attracted many upper-class Romans. Epictetus wrote nothing. His teachings were most likely written down by a pupil who collected the lecture notes he had taken, in two works: Discourses, and the Handbook (or Manual (Encheiridion), which is a condensed aphoristic version of the main doctrines. The two works, written somewhere around AD 104-7, deal almost wholly with ethics. Whoever wrote the text as we have it today - Epitectus or his upper-class Roman pupil - its words were intended to present Stoic moral philosophy. In his teachings Epictetus followed the early Stoics, reverting to Socrates and to Diogenes as historical models of the sage. True education, he believed, consisted in recognizing that there is only one thing that belongs to an individual fully, and that is his will. Though flowing maxims Epictetus also wanted students to stay focused on "obedience to conscience". Epictetus also saw man as a member of a great system - the aim of the philosopher should be to see the world as a whole, to grow into the mind of God, and so on. A Stoic approach is also found in writings of the Roman statesman Seneca. Also, the Meditations of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius illustrate that emperor's Stoic approach. Origen (Contra Celsum 6.2) also reports that Epictetus had been more popular in his day than had Plato in his. Aulus Gellius (c.125-c.165) reports that one of Marcus Aurelius' teachers, Herodes Atticus (c.101-177), considered Epictetus to be "the greatest of Stoics" (Attic Nights 1.2.6).
BorisVM	Epitektus: Upatstvo za zhiveenje 1. Chovek treba da znae shto mozhe i shto ne mozhe da kontrolira Srekjata i slobodata pocnuvaat so jasno poznavanje na samo eden princip: Nekoi neshta se pod nasha kontrola, a nekoi ne se. Samo koga chovek kje go razbere ova fundamentalno pravilo i da napravi sporedba pomedju rabotite koi mozhe i ne mozhe da gi kontrolira, samo togash mozhe da se vospostavi vnatreshen mir i nadvoreshna efektivnost. Pod nashata kontrola se nashite misli, zhelbi i neshtata koi ni se odbivni. Sekogash imame izbor za sodrzhinata i za karakterot na nashiot vnatreshen zhivot. Nadvor od nashata kontrola se rabotite kako dali sme rodeni vo bogato semejstvo ili sami sme si go sozdale bogatstvoto, kako drugite ne gledaat i nashtiot status vo opshtestvoto. Ovie raboti se nadvoreshni i ne spadjaat vo domenot na neshta za koi treba da se grizhime. Da se obiduvame da gi smenime neshtata koi ne mozheme rezultira samo vo machenje. Ako prodolzhime da mislime deka mozhe ovie raboti da gi kontrolirame kje staneme frustrirani, nervozni i polni so negativna energija.