Abstract
Epictetus sees the world as a unified totality. Each thing, he says, is part of a whole, “as the hour is part of the day” (II.5.13; IV.7.6). He quotes approvingly “the philosophers” who hold that
this world is one city and the substance, out of which it has been made, is one.... (III. 24. 10),
and goes so far as to endorse the pan-feeling doctrine, likewise early Stoic in character, though deriving from Pythagoras and Empedocles (Sext. Ag. Phys. I.127). His version is that
all things are united together... and earthly things feel the influence of heavenly ones (I.14. If; cp. 5).
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Xenakis, J. (1969). Nature and God. In: Epictetus Philosopher-Therapist. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9060-2_4
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