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Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218)

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Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook which gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian .

Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit. How should one live righteously? Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'. We must not resist fortune. Man is part of a system; humans are reasoning beings and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect man.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.

Language: English

Pages: 576

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard University Press (Cambridge)

Release: January 01, 1928

ISBN: 0674992407

ISBN 13: 9780674992405

Discourses, Books 3-4. The Enchiridion (Loeb Classical Library #218)

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Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook which gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian .

Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit. How should one live righteously? Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'. We must not resist fortune. Man is part of a system; humans are reasoning beings and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect man.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.

Language: English

Pages: 576

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard University Press (Cambridge)

Release: January 01, 1928

ISBN: 0674992407

ISBN 13: 9780674992405

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