Friday, October 01, 2021
Kinship
Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.3.5 (tr. W.A. Oldfather):
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That is why the good is preferred above every form of kinship. My father is nothing to me, but only the good.A repellent doctrine, to place an abstraction above one's own flesh and blood. Cf. Plato, Euthyphro, Matthew 12.46-49, Mark 3.31-35, Luke 8.19-21, etc.
διὰ τοῦτο πάσης οἰκειότητος προκρίνεται τὸ ἀγαθόν. οὐδὲν ἐμοὶ καὶ τῷ πατρί, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἀγαθῷ.
