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Subject(s)

• Epictetus [Browse]
• Stoics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Translator

• Hard, Robin [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Gill, Christopher [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics [More in this series]
• Oxford World's Classics

Summary note

About things that are within our power and those that are not.'Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful, direct, and challenging, their central message is that thebasis of happiness is up to us, and that we all.

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Source of description

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ISBN

• 9780191641961 ((electronic bk.))
• 0191641960 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780191641978 ((electronic bk.))
• 0191641979 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

958570216

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