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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Tuesday, 02 August 2005 18:43 |
Richard Taylor for Philosophy Now: "Epictetus is quoted as saying, in his Discourses,
“Whenever a man can be hindered or compelled by another at will, assert with confidence that he is not free. Do not look at his grandfathers and great grandfathers and search whether he was bought or sold, but if you hear him say ‘Master’ from the heart and with feeling, then call him a slave, though twelve fasces go before him.”
This passage burned itself into my consciousness and memory decades ago, and has influenced a considerable part of my life. It would, I believe, be centuries before another philosopher would make a similar point, when John Stuart Mill wrote, in his essay ‘On Liberty’"more
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