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The handbook distinguishes our judgments from the results that follow. How does training our responses bear on emotional life and on difficult duties toward other people?
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Guided course · Module 5 · Lesson 25
Pleasure, virtue and what is up to us
Epicurus teaches how to choose among pleasures; Epictetus separates what is up to us, our judgments, from results that are not. Similar practical advice, the lesson shows, can rest on different views of what makes a life good.