Enchiridion - Softcover

Epictetus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 164032075X ISBN 13: 9781640320758

Publisher: Chump Change, 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

About this title

About the Author

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".

About this edition

• Publisher: Chump Change
• Publication date: 1890
• ISBN 10: 164032075X
• ISBN 13: 9781640320758
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 36