
HoP 074 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is Slavery a Questionable Institution?
Stoics want to say that anybody who is not trying, or is not succeeding in being a stoic is actually a slave. It doesn't matter they could be the freest and wealthiest person in the world, if they are not in control of their desires,. If they are in thralled to a needs and othero impulses, then, in that sense, they're self enslaved. And so that, in that way, the chattel slave could be a freeman, and the the non-chattel slaves could be, as the emperor can be an Emperor. Exactly fat tat petidas oftes addresses his hearers as slaveye - this goes right back
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