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A student, the historian Arrian, recorded Epictetus s lectures and, in the Encheiridion, a handbook, summarized his thought. How should one live righteously?. Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'.

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674991451
ISBN-13
9780674991453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
876536

Product Key Features

Book Title
Discourses, Books 1-2
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1925
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author
Epictetus
Book Series
Loeb Classical Library
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
131
Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
188
Synopsis
Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. He is the author of Discourses and a smaller Enceiridion , a handbook that encapsulates the doctrines of the larger work., From slave to sage. Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) 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 that 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 that gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses . He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-138). 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 (in feeble bodies) and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect (Stoic) man. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes., Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54-68 CE) 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 (117-138 CE). 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 (in feeble bodies) and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect (Stoic) man. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.