Discourses And Selected Writings

Author : Epictetus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141917482
Total Pages : 365 pages
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Download or read book Discourses and Selected Writings written by Epictetus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Robert Dobbin

Author : Epictetus
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Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book The Discourses of Epictetus written by Epictetus and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Epictetus
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986479376
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourses of Epictetus written by Epictetus and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discourses of Epictetus Epictetus - The books did not have a formal title in ancient times. Although Simplicius called them Diatribai other writers gave them titles such as Dialexis , and Homiliai . The modern name comes from the titles given in the earliest medieval manuscript: "Arrian's Diatribai of Epictetus" . The Greek word Diatribai literally means "informal talks".As to the date, it is generally agreed that the Discourses were composed sometime in the years around 108 AD. Epictetus himself refers to the coins of Trajan, which shows he was teaching during that reign. Arrian was suffect consul in around 130, and since forty-two was the standard age for that position, he would have been at the right age of around twenty in 108. Furthermore the "commissioner" of the "free cities" to whom Discourse iii. 7 is addressed is thought to be the same man Pliny the Younger addresses his Letter viii. 24a letter which has been dated to around 108.

Author : Epictetus
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Sayings of Epictetus written by Epictetus and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Epictetus
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781772269925
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourses of Epictetus and the Enchiridion (100 Copy Collector's Edition) written by Epictetus and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of intensely practical informal lectures. Epictetus directs his students to focus attention on their opinions, anxieties, passions and desires, so that they may never fail to get what they desire. The purpose of his teaching was to make people free and happy. Also included is the Enchiridion.

Author : Montesquieu
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872200906
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Political Writings written by Montesquieu and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: The political theory of Montesquieu. 1977.

Author : Epictetus
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504083563
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion written by Epictetus and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of extracts from the teachings of an ancient Greek stoic philosopher, as written down by his pupil c. 108 AD. Captured by his student Arian, the discourses of Epictetus, along with his Encheiridion, or “manual,” are brought to life with the humor and conversational tone the ancient stoic philosopher used to bring his ideas to the widest audience possible. With wisdom on how to live a life of integrity, self-management, and personal freedom, Epictetus draws on the well of stoicism to offer virtues and values that have proven influential throughout Western history.

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021225
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings on Race and Difference written by Stuart Hall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of Their Eyes” (1981) and “Race, the Floating Signifier” (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom.

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ISBN 13 : 9781644650639
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Download or read book Think Like a Stoic written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Carter
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ISBN 13 : 9781521800355
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of Epictetus written by Elizabeth Carter and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes Epictetus' Discourses, The Enchiridion, and Fragments scholars have attributed to Epictetus or are in the spirit of Epictetus' brand of stoicism. Epictetus (AD 50 - 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life. His teachings were written down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses and Enchiridion.Epictetus taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are beyond our control; we should accept calmly and dispassionately whatever happens. However, individuals are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline.No writings by Epictetus are truly known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of the original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses that is addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian states that "whatever I heard him say I used to write down, word for word, as best I could, endeavouring to preserve it as a memorial, for my own future use, of his way of thinking and the frankness of his speech."Epictetus maintains that the foundation of all philosophy is self-knowledge, that is, the conviction of our ignorance and gullibility ought to be the first subject of our study. Logic provides valid reasoning and certainty in judgment, but it is subordinate to practical needs. The first and most necessary part of philosophy concerns the application of doctrine, for example, that people should not lie. The second concerns reasons, e.g. why people should not lie. While the third, lastly, examines and establishes the reasons. This is the logical part, which finds reasons, shows what is a reason, and that a given reason is a correct one. This last part is necessary, but only on account of the second, which again is rendered necessary by the first.