This thinker used the example of a slave who must hold a chamberpot for his master to argue that what is unbearable differs from person to person.
This thinker used the example of a slave who must hold a chamberpot for his master to argue that what is unbearable differs from person to person. This thinker, who famously thought that one must behave in life as at a dinner party, argued that students ought to study the disciplines of desire, action, and assent as part of his "doctrine of the three topics". This thinker's assertion that "some things are in our control and some are not" formed that basis of his distinction between the prohairetic and the aprohairetic. Marcus Aurelius' Meditations frequently quotes this thinker whose sayings were collected by his student Arrian into the Enchiridion. For 10 points, name this late Stoic philosopher whose teachings are collected in his Discourses.
This thinker used the example of a slave who must hold a chamberpot for his master to argue that what is unbearable differs from person to person.
Epictetus