수요일 2026년1월7일	-	Virtue and Discipline

Discourses 1.4.3

	Now, if virtue promises to enable us to achieve happiness
	and serenity, then progress towards virtue is surely also
	progress towards each of these states.

And what does it mean to make progress? Epictetus first warns of of what
does not constitute progress, with the example of mastery over
sophisticated philosophical texts and concepts. He then introduces us to
what he understands progress to look like, the Three Disciplines of
Desire, Action, and Assent.

Desire is a question of right valuation, of what is truly good and bad
(our choices) and what is merely preferrable or not (indifferents).
Action asks us what our motivations are. I'll leave the explanation
there, as of the three, this is the one I am least familiar with. And the
final discipline is Assent, which is about rightly interpreting our
impressions and not attributing to them more than what is actually
observed.