240529 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

Today's Meditation(s):

Discourses, 2.14.7 (Waterfield)

Immediately prior, Epictetus is talking about how watching someone learn their craft is not fun, but that the product of that training is pleasing. He extends this philosophers here.

Next, we have to find out what sorts of things a philosopher must learn so as to hold his desires and aversions in check, never letting them stray from what is happening in the world.