…the individual 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,…

…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 emperor, wrote that it is possible to be virtuous even in a palace. And I think these two heroic…

…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 to find…