discuss the passage, and not merely a passage or issue related to it.?

Question

“A person’s master is someone who has power over what he wants or does not want, either to obtain it or take it away. Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.” (Epictetus; Classics, 306)

Answer 1

I think this is just plain good advice for any one who reserves the right to choose: their own destiny, to be happy or not, to be rich or not, to live or not...

Answer 2

Kill. The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm#29

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phba.htm

1. Duplicated Self-Consciousness
Φ 179. Self-consciousness has before it another self-consciousness; it has come outside itself. This has a double significance. First it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as an other being; secondly, it has thereby sublated that other, for it does not regard the other as essentially real, but sees its own self in the other.

Φ 180. It must cancel this its other. To do so is the sublation of that first double meaning, and is therefore a second double meaning. First, it must set itself to sublate the other independent being, in order thereby to become certain of itself as true being, secondly, it thereupon proceeds to sublate its own self, for this other is itself.

Answer 3

This should be taught to all children from birth.
It's an eternal truth, and constitutes true freedom.
It's the reason all religions enslave the minds of their followers.