Discourses of Epictetus

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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

Authors: Epictetus In Year : 1877

Book Language: English

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Introduction and Preface
Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power
II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character
III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest
IV. Of Progress or Improvement
V. Against the Academics
VI. Of Providence
VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like
VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences
X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome
XI. Of Natural Affection
XII. Of Contentment
XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods
XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things
XV. What Philosophy Promises
XVI. Of Providence
XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary
XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others
XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants
XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself
XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired
XXII. On Precognition
XXIII. Against Epicurus
XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances
XXV. On the Same
XXVI. What is the Law of Life
XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them
XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men
XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)
XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances
Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution
II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)
III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers
IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery
V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care
VI. Of Indifference
VII. How We Ought to Use Divination
VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good
IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher
X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names
XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is
XII. Of Disputation or Discussion
XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)
XIV. To Naso
XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined
XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil
XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances
XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words
XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics
XXI. Of Inconsistency
XXII. On Friendship
XXIII. On the Power of Speaking
XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him)
XXV. That Logic is Necessary
XXVI. What Is the Property of Error
Book III I. Of Finery in Dress
II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things
III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves
IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre
V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home
VI. Miscellaneous
VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean
VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ)
IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit
X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness
XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters
XII. About Exercise
XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is
XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters
XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything
XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men
XVII. On Providence
XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News
XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher
XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things
XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists
XXII. About Cynism
XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation
XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power
XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose
XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want
Book IV I. About Freedom
II. On Familiar Intimacy
III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things
IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility
V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious
VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied
VII. On Freedom From Fear
VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress
IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness
X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value
XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)
XII. On Attention
XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs

Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear events but rather our thoughts about those events. (Summary by the reader)