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Hippocrates
Physician, used as an example of expertise in medicine.
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First appearance: i of the things which are in our power and not in our power
Hippocrates shows up with force in VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Cited as a physician whose speech is not about being a physician, illustrating the mixing of accidental traits with essential ones.
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In VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed: Cited as a physician whose speech is not about being a physician, illustrating the mixing of accidental traits with essential ones. Later, in How We Must…
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This passage is the dramatic climax because it delivers the emotional and psychological peak of Epictetus’s ar…
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- VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
- How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
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