
37. Robin Waterfield on Epictetus
Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Do You Want to Ascend to That?
Inclination for Hallmere is more interesting. Impulse is certainly the most common translation. Nowadays, one or two people like Robin Hard's translation of Epitetus, I think he uses motivation rather than impulse. And I did use it for markers. But I had to write a footnote because the difficulty with the translation impulse is that it resonates with the English term impulsiveness which is exactly wrong.
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