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Erlend D. MacGillivray's Epictetus and Laypeople: A Stoic Stance
toward the Rest of Humanity explores the understanding that ancient
philosophers had towards the vast majority of people at the time,
those who had no philosophical knowledge or adherence-laypeople.
After exploring how philosophical identity was established in
antiquity, this book examines the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, who
reflected upon laypeople with remarkable frequency. MacGillivray
shows that Epictetus maintained his stance that a small and
distinguishable group of philosophically aware individuals existed,
alongside his conviction that most of humanity can be inclined to
act in accordance with virtuous principles by their dependence upon
preconceptions, civic law, popular religion, exempla, and the
adoption of primitive conditions, among other means. This book also
highlights other Stoics and their commentators to show that the
means of lay reform that MacGillivray explores were not just
implicitly understood in antiquity, but reveal a well-developed
system of thought in the school which has, until now, evaded the
notice of modern scholars.
Erlend Dr. MacGillivray's Epictetus and Laypeople: A Stoic Stance
toward the Rest of Humanity explores the understanding that ancient
philosophers had towards the vast majority of people at the time,
those who had no philosophical knowledge or adherence-laypeople.
After exploring how philosophical identity was established in
antiquity, this book examines the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, who
reflected upon laypeople with remarkable frequency. MacGillivray
shows that Epictetus maintained his stance that a small and
distinguishable group of philosophically aware individuals existed,
alongside his conviction that most of humanity can be inclined to
act in accordance with virtuous principles by their dependence upon
preconceptions, civic law, popular religion, exempla, and the
adoption of primitive conditions, among other means. This book also
highlights other Stoics and their commentators to show that the
means of lay reform that MacGillivray explores were not just
implicitly understood in antiquity, but reveal a well-developed
system of thought in the school which has, until now, evaded the
notice of modern scholars.
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