Epictetus, Discourses | Willing What God Wills | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This video focuses on a key idea in Epictetus' Discourses, specifically on his discussions of the interrelation between the human and the divine, the divine "will", and willing what God or the divine wills.

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[elenbuzare]

Could you write down the greek terms used by Epictetus to express 'will" or "willing" or "wishing". I do not hear them well which complicates research in the Bailly dictionnary for example. No translitteration so that I can copy/paste. Thanks

[MrMarktrumble]

neat: you distinguish between prohairesis and voluntas. If ones choice makes truth, then will is the sufficient condition of truth. The moon is made of green cheese because I decided so. 4:10 So the story of Abraham would not be accepted by the stoics. I think I am too much the "spectator"(by nature). I am perhaps an in-spector. Should we watch the divine governance, or should we participate with it? "Love is a union of wills" ( St. John of the Cross). But Is one effacing ones will to accept the deontological divine command, or is one deifying ones own will when one arrogates the divine command( if one assumes there is no theistic god, then what does this union mean?).

[drusttaib]

could you please tell me how did Epictetus think about god in one or two sentences?