Volume 1 - Discourses - Books I - II - College of Stoic Philosophers

INTRODUCTIONdisregard for the things of this world 1 is offset byso many fundamental differences in presupposition,,if not in common ethical practice,, that any kindof a sympathetic understanding of the new religionon the part of Epictetusis inconceivable. A certainground-tone of religious capability, a fading ofinterest in the conventional fields of human achievementja personal kindliness and ee harmlessness " ofcharacter^ a truly pathetic longing as of tired menfor a passive kind of happiness,, an ill- definedyearning to be