Discourses And Selected Writings
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Argues 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. This book is a guide to the ethics of stoicism and moral self-improvement, and...
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Argues 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. This book is a guide to the ethics of stoicism and moral self-improvement, and tackles questions of illness and fear, family, and friendship and love.
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A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. "Discourses and Selected Writings" is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an important example of the usage of Koine or ?common? Greek, an ancestor to Standard Modern Greek.
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EpictetusIntroductionFurther Reading
Note on the Translation
The Discourses
Fragments
Enchiridion
Glossary of Names
Notes
Autoren-Porträt von Epiktet
Epictetus (c. AD 55–135) was a teacher and Greco-Roman philosopher. Originally a slave from Hierapolis in Anatolia (modern Turkey), he was owned for a time by a prominent freedman at the court of the emperor Nero. After gaining his freedom he moved to Nicopolis on the Adriatic coast of Greece and opened a school of philosophy there. His informal lectures (Discourses) were transcribed and published by his student Arrian, who also composed a digest of Epictetus's teaching known as the Manual (or Enchiridion).Robert Dobbin received a PhD in classics from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught history and classics at the college level. He is the translator and editor of Epictetus's Discourses and Selected Writings for Penguin Classics, as well as an author of articles on Virgil, Plato, and Pythagoras. He works as a book editor in Northern California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Epiktet
- 2008, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Robert Dobbin
- Übersetzer: Robert Dobbin
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0140449469
- ISBN-13: 9780140449464
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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