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Discourses of Epictetus
Overview
Collection of lectures on Stoic philosophy
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God therefore is the world, the stars, the earth, and (highest of all) the mind in the heavens. In the judgment of Epicurus all the gods are anthropomorphites, or have the shape of men; but they are perceptible only by reason, for their nature admits of no other manner of being apprehended, their parts being so small and fine that they give no corporeal representations. The same Epicurus asserts that there are four…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
States what Discourses of Epictetus is.
19 The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Edited by Alice Zimmern. 20 The Teaching of Epictetus. Translated from the Greek, with Introduction and Notes, by T. W. Rolleston. 21 Selections from Seneca. With Introduction by Walter Clode. 22 Specimen Days in America. By Walt Whitman.
David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses
Close in meaning to Discourses of Epictetus; the term itself is not named.
“When our neighbour,” says Epictetus, “loses his wife or his son, there is nobody who is not sensible that this is a human calamity, a natural event altogether, according to the ordinary course of things: but when the same thing happens to ourselves, then we cry out, as if we had suffered the most dreadful misfortune. We ought, however, to remember how we were affected when this accident happened to another, and…
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Close in meaning to Discourses of Epictetus; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Discourses of Epictetus
Related ideas
- Epictetus
- Meditations
- Cynicism (philosophy)
- Stoicism
- Marcus Aurelius
- Diogenes
- Socrates
- Venice
- Koine Greek
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- English language
- A. A. Long
- Pierre Hadot
- Jakob Schegk
- Prohairesis
Place in the tradition
Part of Stoicism.