What Is Epictetus's Reputation

Epictetus believes and that our opinions, our impulses, desires, and aversions are up to us and that our bodies, our possessions, our reputations, and our public offices are not up to us. I agree with him except for I believe that our reputations are up to us because it is up to each individual person to decide how they want the public to perceive them that develops one’s reputation. Epictetus states that we must be “in accord with nature” (90) and one example that he wrote is: “death is nothing dreadful but instead the judgement about death that it is dreadful-that is what is dreadful.” (90) I think that what he is suggesting in this phrase is that thinking about death does not make us upset but our judgement about it does when it comes to