Epictetus
Epictetus
Philosophical profile and overview
- Era
- He lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, during the period of the late Stoic philosophy.
- Philosophical Focus
- Epictetus's philosophical work primarily focuses on ethics, the practice of the Stoic virtue. His teachings emphasized the philosophy of self-improvement, the acceptance of fate, and understanding what is within one's control; a profound influence on the concept of the power of the individual in Stoicism.
- About
- Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher, born as a slave around 55 AD in Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, Turkey). He lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.
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