Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

Name: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
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ISBN: 9780199595181

ISBN-10: 0199595186

ISBN-13: 9780199595181

Edition: 2014

Authors: Epictetus, Robin Hard, Christopher Gill

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'About things that are within our power and those that are not.'Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful, direct, and challenging, their central message is thatthe basis of happiness is up to us, and that we all have the capacity, through sustained reflection and hard work, of achieving this goal. They still…

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List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 4.00" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English