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The Discourses. Books III-IV Fragments,

Name: The Discourses. Books III-IV Fragments,
Author: Epictetus

Epictetus

01 July 1989

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Book Synopsis

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780674992405
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard University Press, (01 July 1989)
Number of Pages: 559
Weight: 406 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 161.92 x 107.95 x 30.48 mm
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Categories:: Literary essays