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What Does Epictetus Control?
Epictetus, in looking out over nero's court, realizes that all these people who are very powerful and very rich are probably less free than he is. He walks with a limp his whole life because his slave master breaks his leg at some point. So obviously he's not discounting physical freedom. But i think he understands that freedom from greed, or a freedom from ego, you know, a freedom from caring what other people think about you,. These are more accessible freedoms that a lot of people who have even physical freedom, take completely for granted.