His doctrine recognized two classes of influence on human life, those under human control and those outside of that control, which he called adiaphora.
His doctrine recognized two classes of influence on human life, those under human control and those outside of that control, which he called adiaphora. He was a slave to Epaphroditos,* during the reign of Nero and was crippled because of poor treatment by his master. He was eventually freed, but was exiled by Domitian. During that time, he set up a school, and one of his students, Arrian, recorded many of his thoughts in the Enchiridion. FTP, who is this influential Stoic ethicist, who founded the Stoic school at Nicopolis and wrote The Discourses, four books of which survive to today?
His doctrine recognized two classes of influence on human life, those under human control and those outside of that control, which he called adiaphora.
Epictetus