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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by acituan on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:10AM (#27060397)
> So it would be disingenuous to imply Epictetus had the perspective of an impoverished slave when he founded his own school of philosophy.

Good thing is that I made no such implication. It would be equally disingenuous however to imply that his school of philosophy would be completely isolated from the experience of his formative years as a slave.

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by h0l0cube on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:23AM (#27060472)
> Good thing is that I made no such implication

Most people simply attribute the author of the quote without qualifying or emphasizing some aspect of their life. So it seems arbitrary to mention this without any rhetorical motivation. Could have well said Greek Stoic Philosopher, which is mostly what he's known for and what the hive-mind of Wikipedia settled on

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