On Some Rhetorical-pedagogical Strategies in Epictetus' Discourses Concerning Proairesis
The paper aims to clarify some features of Epictetus' specific usage of the concept of proairesis. This will be done by suggesting that a number of problematic expressions concerning proairesis and its freedom should be understood as rhetorical-pedagogical expressions of Epictetus’ intellectual...
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Universidad del Norte
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/2133/16063 http://hdl.handle.net/2133/16063 |
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| Sumario: | The paper aims to clarify some features of Epictetus' specific usage of the concept of proairesis. This will be done by suggesting that a number of problematic expressions concerning proairesis and its freedom should be understood as rhetorical-pedagogical expressions of Epictetus’ intellectualism. I will mainly focus on a series of problematic passages that have been discussed by several commentators concerning the concept of proairesis, and I will suggest that those passages are best interpreted as rhetorical or, better, pedagogical expressions of Epictetus' strictly intellectualist approach to the psychology of action. |
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