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37. Robin Waterfield on Epictetus

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Prefered in Difference

So being preferred is not really a function of what we might or might not want. If you want something then you feel pleasure when you get it, and the stakes weren't very keen on pleasure on the whole. You'd have to say something like indifference which it's okay to select. I ask partly because I want to copy whatever you say and that's how I teach it. So maybe one more little follow-up before.

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