Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Epictetus

Language: English

Genre(s): Ancient Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)Non-fiction Philosophy

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75 Chapter(s)

1. Biographical Note
2. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power
3. How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character
4. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest
5. Of Progress or Improvement
6. Against the Academics
7. OF PROVIDENCE
8. HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES
9. OF CONTENTMENT.
10. HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS
11. WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES
12. THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS
13. HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS
14. AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED
15. ON PRÆCOGNITIONS
16. HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES
17. ON THE SAME
18. IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM
19. THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN.
20. ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS)
21. THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION
22. OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION)
23. HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE.
24. OF INDIFFERENCE
25. HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION
26. THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER
27. HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES.
28. WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS
29. OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION
30. ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE)
31. TO NASO
32. TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED.
33. THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL
34. HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES
35. HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES
36. OF INCONSISTENCY.
37. ON FRIENDSHIP
38. ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING
39. TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM.
40. THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY.
41. OF FINERY IN DRESS
42. IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS
43. WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES
44. MISCELLANEOUS
45. TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN
46. HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES
47. TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT
48. IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS
49. ABOUT EXERCISE
50. WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS
51. CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
52. THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING
53. THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN.
54. ON PROVIDENCE
55. ABOUT CYNICISM
56. THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER
57. TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE
58. TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT
59. ABOUT FREEDOM
60. ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY.
61. WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS
62. TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY.
63. AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS
64. AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED
65. ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR
66. TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS
67. WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE
68. ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS)
69. ON ATTENTION
70. AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.
71. THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 10
72. THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 20
73. THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 30
74. THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 40
75. THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 52

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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.

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