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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Against the academics.See Lecture V., The New Academy, Levin's Lectures Introductory to the Phoilsophical Writings of Cicero, Cambridge, 1871.
IF a man, said Epictetus, opposes evident truths, it is
not easy to find arguments by which we shall make him
change his opinion. But this does not arise either from the
man's strength or the teacher's weakness; for when the
man, though he has been confuted,a)paxqei/s. See the note in Schweig.'s edition. is hardened like a
stone, how shall we then be able to deal with him by
argument?
Now there are two kinds of hardening, one of the understanding, the other of the sense of shame, when a man
is resolved not to assent to what is manifest nor to desist
from contradictions. Most of us are afraid of mortification
of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a
thing, but we care not about the soul's mortification. And
indeed with regard to the soul, if a man be in such a state
as not to apprehend anything, or understand at all, we
think t
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)