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