Stoicism In Epictetus Philosophy

The world being vast and unknown has attributed its conscious inhabitants to develop concepts, throughout thousands of years of living, to attempt to make sufficient sense of their environment. These attempts are classified as philosophies. Consequently from the world’s enigma, there’s an abundant amount of these philosophies, and one of them, relating to the endurance of unruly struggles, is called Stoicism. Stoicism was advanced from multiple philosophers but more specifically Epictetus. Epictetus counseled that Stoicism was a philosophy about enduring one’s uncontrolled conditions with disregard to factors that are negatively affecting you, for those factors are out of your hands. Instead of dwelling on them, you should either blame yourself for your own hostile outlook,as it is your interpretation of a situation

In that respect, Stoicism parallels the idea of quietism, in which denotes ignorance towards worldly factors that have more or less affected humans, for by rejecting,” the view that our emotions has imposed on us,” in turn allows an individual to neglect pain and forget about the source of the named pain. Neglecting pain wouldn’t evaporate it, since pain is an intrinsic respondent of the human anatomy to signify the brain that the body is threatened, and therefore disapproves the idea of even rejecting pain, or rather where the pain stems from. To be ignorant to the entity deliver the pain establish you, as a human, being to be a idiotic, nonchalant scapegoat. Moreover, when Epictetus’ focuses merely on one’s emotions on matters, hinted in, “What disturbs men’s minds is not events but their judgments on events,” he develops a blind eye towards ways to deal with immoralities , and that thinking pattern can only indicate the concept of escapism, which is a form of running away from one’s