Discourses of Epictetus


Lu par Christine Rottger

(4.9 stars; 13 reviews)

Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear events but rather our thoughts about those events. (Summary by the reader) (13 hr 57 min)

Chapitres

Introduction and Preface 14:49 Lu par Christine Rottger
Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power 8:50 Lu par Christine Rottger
II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character 9:20 Lu par Christine Rottger
III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of Al… 2:47 Lu par Christine Rottger
IV. Of Progress or Improvement 9:10 Lu par Christine Rottger
V. Against the Academics 3:01 Lu par Christine Rottger
VI. Of Providence 11:00 Lu par Christine Rottger
VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like 9:07 Lu par Christine Rottger
VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed 4:19 Lu par Christine Rottger
IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Conseque… 9:59 Lu par Christine Rottger
X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome 4:09 Lu par Christine Rottger
XI. Of Natural Affection 10:58 Lu par Christine Rottger
XII. Of Contentment 9:26 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods 2:09 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things 5:15 Lu par Christine Rottger
XV. What Philosophy Promises 2:38 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVI. Of Providence 5:17 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary 7:30 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others 7:19 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants 7:54 Lu par Christine Rottger
XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself 5:06 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired 1:20 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXII. On Precognition 5:52 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIII. Against Epicurus 2:30 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances 5:13 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXV. On the Same 8:13 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXVI. What is the Law of Life 5:24 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Aga… 6:13 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the … 9:27 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness) 18:06 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances 2:23 Lu par Christine Rottger
Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution 12:15 Lu par Christine Rottger
II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation) 6:09 Lu par Christine Rottger
III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers 2:08 Lu par Christine Rottger
IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery 3:54 Lu par Christine Rottger
V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care 8:45 Lu par Christine Rottger
VI. Of Indifference 6:51 Lu par Christine Rottger
VII. How We Ought to Use Divination 4:10 Lu par Christine Rottger
VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good 9:06 Lu par Christine Rottger
IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We A… 7:08 Lu par Christine Rottger
X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names 8:40 Lu par Christine Rottger
XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is 7:11 Lu par Christine Rottger
XII. Of Disputation or Discussion 6:51 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude) 8:22 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIV. To Naso 8:41 Lu par Christine Rottger
XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined 5:57 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil 14:57 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases 12:04 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances 8:15 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words 11:10 Lu par Christine Rottger
XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics 12:31 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXI. Of Inconsistency 7:14 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXII. On Friendship 12:43 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIII. On the Power of Speaking 14:44 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteem… 9:28 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXV. That Logic is Necessary 1:05 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXVI. What Is the Property of Error 2:51 Lu par Christine Rottger
Book III I. Of Finery in Dress 13:59 Lu par Christine Rottger
II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Ne… 6:31 Lu par Christine Rottger
III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We … 7:14 Lu par Christine Rottger
IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre 4:07 Lu par Christine Rottger
V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home 5:30 Lu par Christine Rottger
VI. Miscellaneous 3:27 Lu par Christine Rottger
VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean 10:33 Lu par Christine Rottger
VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ) 2:59 Lu par Christine Rottger
IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit 7:28 Lu par Christine Rottger
X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness 6:42 Lu par Christine Rottger
XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters 1:39 Lu par Christine Rottger
XII. About Exercise 6:15 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is 8:03 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters 3:21 Lu par Christine Rottger
XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything 5:08 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men 4:34 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVII. On Providence 2:36 Lu par Christine Rottger
XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News 2:46 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher 2:12 Lu par Christine Rottger
XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things 5:38 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists 7:22 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXII. About Cynism 32:54 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation 13:07 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not i… 38:46 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose 3:44 Lu par Christine Rottger
XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want 13:16 Lu par Christine Rottger
Book IV I. About Freedom 58:32 Lu par Christine Rottger
II. On Familiar Intimacy 3:37 Lu par Christine Rottger
III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things 4:03 Lu par Christine Rottger
IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility 18:07 Lu par Christine Rottger
V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious 13:16 Lu par Christine Rottger
VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied 14:02 Lu par Christine Rottger
VII. On Freedom From Fear 15:16 Lu par Christine Rottger
VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress 14:54 Lu par Christine Rottger
IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness 6:21 Lu par Christine Rottger
X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value 12:29 Lu par Christine Rottger
XI. About Purity (Cleanliness) 13:06 Lu par Christine Rottger
XII. On Attention 7:18 Lu par Christine Rottger
XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs 8:22 Lu par Christine Rottger

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