Friday, October 01, 2021

 

Kinship

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.3.5 (tr. W.A. Oldfather):
That is why the good is preferred above every form of kinship. My father is nothing to me, but only the good.

διὰ τοῦτο πάσης οἰκειότητος προκρίνεται τὸ ἀγαθόν. οὐδὲν ἐμοὶ καὶ τῷ πατρί, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἀγαθῷ.
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.



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