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" Epictetus Philosopher-Therapist "
by Jason Xenakis.
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BL
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736631
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b556496
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by Jason Xenakis.
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Epictetus Philosopher-Therapist\ by Jason Xenakis.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1969
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(141 pages)
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9401190607
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: 9789401190602
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I. Biography --;1. Life and Stoicism --;2. Teaching --;3. Writings --;4. Influence --;II. Life a Game --;5. Living for Happiness --;6. Suicide, Euthanasia, Death --;7. Knowledge for Living --;8. Rational Self --;III. Logical Topics --;9. Nature of Logical Studies --;10. Irrefutability and Epistemological Issues --;11. Logical Puzzles --;12. Operators and Kin Matters --;IV. Nature and God --;13. World Structure --;14. Providence --;15. Anthropocentrism --;16. Proofs of Design --;17. Cacodicy --;18. Hymns to God --;19. Zeus Inoperative? --;V. Value Theory --;20. Theic Notions --;21. Good a Protoconcept --;22. Value Relativity --;23. Value Criteria and Pleasure --;VI. Pain and Training --;24. Divisions of Ethics --;25. Learning Theory --;26. Rationalization and Erring --;27. Negative Ethics: A Look --;VII. Preventive Ethics --;28. Forestall, Resist, Ease --;29. Control Test --;30. Anxiety and Fear --;31. Other Safeguards --;32. Resistance Methods --;VIII. Remedial Devices --;33. Examples --;34. 'It's fate' and Other Tonics --;35. Loneliness --;36. Objections --;IX. Social Remarks --;37. Independence and Outgoingness --;38. Man as Social --;39. Troubleshooting and Cosmopolitanism --;40. Legal Questions --;X. Afterthoughts.
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His ethics is primarily pain-oriented: it consists of existential reminders, such as that things are ephemer al and people vulnerable, plus ways of avoiding and easing distress, induding training and thought-analysis, because he believed that people's troubles stern largely from silly habits and precon- ceptions.
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Philosophy Religion.
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Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy.
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B563.B953 1969
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Jason Xenakis
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