Discourses of Epictetus

Physics as a Discourse Community Discourse communities, or groups of people who share the similar interests, exist everywhere, but they become more obvious in college because each major is its own academic discourse community. In “Discourse Communities,” Schmidt mentions that it is more common to see students who are part of the same academic discourse community spending most of their time together because they “focus [their] attention on the same issues and things” (1). This is due to the…

relationships of power and privilege in social interactions, institutions, and bodies of knowledge (Rogers, Malancharuvil-Berkes, Mosley, Hui, & Joseph, 2005). Moreover, CDA aims to find out “unequal relations of power” and “to reveal the role of discourse in reproducing or challenging socio-political dominance” (Garret & Bell, 1998). Fairclough and Wodak (1997) provide another definition of CDA that is popular among…

Figure (1) Fairclough’s three diamenttional analytical frame work (Adopted from Norman Fairclough’s (1995) “Discourse and Social Change” book) 1) Text: The first level of discourse analysis is based on written or spoken text (Fairclough 1995). In this level the researcher identify actually about what the text represent. In this stage the analysis is descriptive, in many ways, the text is described as a form of linguistic analysis, in which usually searching for vocabularies (metaphore, lexical…

With the 2016 Presidential elections coming up right around the corner, the date of November 8th continues to flush dread into the hearts of the voters. Considering the almost equally divided voter pool and two equally disliked candidates, the nation is contemplating some of the biggest issues of present day society as a means of distinguishing between the two opposing arguments. Nevertheless, there is one issue that Secretary Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald J. Trump agree on: income inequality…

In 55 C.E. a well-known Greek Stoic philosopher by the name of Epictetus was born. As a young boy, Epictetus grew up in Hierapolis, Phrygia which is now known as the modern day western Turkey. By some means, he disembarked in Rome as a slave under Emperor Nero. While he was a slave he learned and studied from Musonius Rufus, a Roman Stoic Philosopher. After his master Nero died, his sentence of being a slave was over. Epictetus became a teacher and lectured in Rome. Soon after, he had to…

philosophy as a whole is interwoven and blended together making it far too complex to comprehend all at once (De Lacy 1). Epictetus is a philosopher who studied Stoicism in Greece and agreed with the common belief of other Stoic philosophers that in order for students to grasp philosophy they needed to split it into three different ways of thinking: Logic, ethics, and physics. Epictetus says that when one has mastered logic, he can then approach ethics. When he has mastered ethics, he can then…

Cavell suggests, or the general love Bloom refers to, what matters is that he lacks self-knowledge of his own love. Epictetus, the stoic, has a moral story about the consequence of it, which is mentioned in Foucault’s lecture: there is a father runs away from his ill daughter because he is too upset by the condition of his daughter that he cannot bear the sight of her illness. Epictetus criticizes this attitude because the father forgets to follow the nature of family bond, but has too much…

himself in control of the Roman Empire. The answer came in the first meeting of the senate when Octavian theatrically relinquished all his powers to the Roman Senate. In exchange for these powers Octavian received a new name, Augustus. In Discourses (III. Xiii. 9) Epictetus tells us, "For you see that Caesar appears to furnish us with great peace. There are no more enemies, nor battles, robbers, or pirates, but we can travel at every hour and sail from the rising sun to the setting." This is…

the Roman Empire for hundreds of years. History remembers him as the man who not only ended the Civil War, but brought peace, prosperity, and cohesion to the empire. Thus, began the historical period known as Pax Romana or Roman Peace. In Discourses, Epictetus tells us, "For you see that Caesar appears to furnish us with great peace. There are no more enemies, nor battles, robbers, or pirates, but we can travel at every hour and sail from the rising sun to the setting." However, history has…