…mean, you have to have both, quite clearly. It's no good I mean, the life of the ideal stoic living as a slave like Epictetus is very noble, but it's certainly a very undesirable form of society. I mean, it's much better if people are living as free…

…a very undesirable form of society. I mean, it's much better if people are living as free men and are also living like Epictetus. But, of course, people find time for an awful lot of funny things in this world. They find time for watching TV 28…

…We will have to find activities and ways of thought and feeling which will do all this so that we may be like Epictetus who was a slave and yet was able to preserve his personal freedom within a system which socially condemned him to a sub-human…

…that this will have to take place. In a sense it looks as though we should have to rethink Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, the great apostles of individual liberty in relation to an unsatisfactory social world. Epictetus, who was a slave, wrote that it is…

…we should have to rethink Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, the great apostles of individual liberty in relation to an unsatisfactory social world. Epictetus, who was a slave, wrote that it is possible to be free even for a slave. Marcus Aurelius, who was an…

…were probably too heroic for most of us to follow. And it seems to me that probably the If we are to rethink Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, if we are to find methods for achieving a kind of personal freedom within an over-organized world, we shall have…