Enchiridion - Couverture souple

Epictetus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164032075X ISBN 13 : 9781640320758

Editeur : Innovative Eggz LLC, 1890

Synopsis

Unabridged version of Enchiridion , by Epictetus, and translated by George Long, with footnotes.  In this classic Epictetus teaches that philosophy is not just thought, but life in practice. 
Born into slavery, and later freed, he tells what he learned across his varied life both in paragraph and parable form. Included here are just the Encheiridion and Fragments portions from The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheiridion and Fragments.
Epictetus influenced many both past and present, including Marcus Aurelius, who quotes Epictetus in his classic book Meditations.
Read the resonating knowledge that has come from 2000 years ago, in this affordably printed volume.
Table of Contents
A LIFE OF EPICTETUS         3 THE ENCHEIRIDION, OR MANUAL             5 FRAGMENTS OF EPICTETUS         18

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. Although the content is similar to the Discourses of Epictetus, it is not a summary of the Discourses but rather a compilation of practical precepts. Eschewing metaphysics, Arrian focused his attention on Epictetus's work applying philosophy in daily life. The primary theme is that one should accept what happens: What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things. For example, "death is nothing dreadful (or else it would have appeared dreadful to Socrates)..." — Chapter Five However, "some things are up to us and some are not up to us"and we must act accordingly, taking responsibility for planning and enacting what we can with virtue without becoming upset or disheartened by obstacles and reverses beyond our control. For many centuries, the Enchiridion maintained its authority both with Christians and Pagans. Two Christian writers – Nilus and an anonymous contemporary – wrote paraphrases of it in the early 5th century and Simplicius of Cilicia wrote a commentary upon it in the 6th. The work was first published in Latin translation by Poliziano in Rome in 1493; Beroaldus published another edition in Bologna in 1496. The original Greek was first published in Venice with the Simplicius's commentary in 1528 and an English translation appeared as early as 1567. The book was a common school text in Scotland during the Scottish Enlightenment. Adam Smith had a 1670 edition in his library, acquired as a schoolboy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Epictetus (c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired."

Epictetus spent his youth as a slave in Rome to Epaphroditos, a very wealthy freedman of Nero. Even as a slave, Epictetus used his time productively, studying Stoic Philosophy under Musonius Rufus. He was eventually freed and lived a relatively hard life in ill health in Rome.

So far as is known, Epictetus himself wrote nothing. All that we have of his work was transcribed by his pupil Arrian. The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, 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".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Innovative Eggz LLC
• Date d'édition: 1890
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164032075X
• ISBN 13: 9781640320758
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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