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爱比克泰德：论说集与手册·摘录 10
爱比克泰德《论说集与手册》· Discourses and Enchiridion · 健康 · 哲学
WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES.—When a man was consulting him how he should persuade his brother to cease being angry with him, Epictetus replied: Philosophy does not propose to secure for a man any external thing. If it did (or if it were not, as I say), philosophy would be allowing something which is not within its province. For as the carpenter’s material is wood, and that of the statuary is copper, so the matter of the art of living is each man’s life. When then is my brother’s? That again belongs to his own art; but with respect to yours, it is one of the external things, like a piece of land, like health, like reputation. But Philosophy promises none of these. In every circumstance I will maintain, she says, the governing part conformable to nature. Whose governing part? His in whom I am, she says.
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定位：Excerpt 10 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
有人问爱比克泰德如何说服兄弟不再生气，他回答：哲学不承诺帮你获得任何外部事物，比如兄弟的和解。哲学只承诺一件事：让你内心那个“主导部分”始终符合自然，即保持理性与平静。就像木匠的材料是木头，雕塑家的材料是铜，生活艺术的材料是你自己的人生。兄弟的态度属于他的“艺术”，对你而言是外部事物，就像土地、健康、名声一样，不在你控制范围内。所以，不要指望哲学能改变别人，它只能帮你管好自己的心。
上下文
爱比克泰德是古罗马斯多葛派哲学家，这段话出自《论说集》，讨论哲学能承诺什么、不能承诺什么。
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