Courage Under Fire
Testing Epictetus's Doctrines In a Laboratory of Human Behavior
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Publisher Description
"On September 9, 1965, I flew at 500 knots right into a flak trap, at tree-top level, in a little A-4 airplane--the cockpit walls not even three feet apart--which I couldn't steer after it was on fire, its control system shot out. After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: 'five years down there, at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.'
"What Epictetus [told] his students was that there can be no such thing as being the 'victim' of another. You can only be a 'victim' of yourself. It's all how you discipline your mind."
GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
1993
1 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
23
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hoover Institution Press
SIZE
203
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