Human Being are Actors in a Drama

Epictetus's Ethical Teaching

Abstract

Epictetus was one of the outstanding stoic philosophers. Early in life he was a slave of a proflicate Roman solkier and he was lame. In the latter of his life he gained his freedom, studied Stoic philosoply and taught until his death. The significant ethical teaching of Epictetus is; human beings are actors in a drama. We should conceive universe as a universal theatre. Everythings is predetermined by God or universe reason. The duty of human beings is to act well the given part, and accept all happened events with intelligence. Remember that whatever is within our control, whatever is beyond our control. The wise person will choose to control his feelings, we must ever bear in mind that apart from the will there is nothing either good or bad.