Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Ancient

Authors: Epictetus In Year : 0

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Biographical Note
Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power
How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character
How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest
Of Progress or Improvement
Against the Academics
OF PROVIDENCE
HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES
OF CONTENTMENT.
HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS
WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES
THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS
HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS
AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED
ON PRÆCOGNITIONS
HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES
ON THE SAME
IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM
THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN.
ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS)
THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION
OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION)
HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE.
OF INDIFFERENCE
HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION
THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER
HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES.
WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS
OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION
ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE)
TO NASO
TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED.
THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL
HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES
HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES
OF INCONSISTENCY.
ON FRIENDSHIP
ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING
TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM.
THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY.
OF FINERY IN DRESS
IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS
WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES
MISCELLANEOUS
TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN
HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES
TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT
IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS
ABOUT EXERCISE
WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS
CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING
THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN.
ON PROVIDENCE
ABOUT CYNICISM
THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER
TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE
TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT
ABOUT FREEDOM
ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY.
WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS
TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY.
AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS
AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED
ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR
TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS
WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE
ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS)
ON ATTENTION
AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 10
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 20
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 30
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 40
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 52

Selection of text from the four-volume work by Epictetus commonly referred to as the Discourses. The sections are mostly quite short but packed with wisdom and hard earned experience. Also included is the Encheiridion ("Manual"), a summary of theoretical and applied Stoicism.