#enchiridon

Review: Epictetus’s Enchiridon and Discourses

Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)   Epictetus Epictetus. Freed slave, logician, and stoic, is one of the many classical writers more often referenced than read. Epictetus’s name is bandied frequently when the subject of stoicism comes up. His writings were extremely influential on Marcus Aurealius (some of the writing attributed to Epictetus exists only in quotation in the…

Epictetus – Enchiridion – A manual of Stoic living. Paragraph 4

Epictetus (55-135 CE) Enchiridion A manual for living a contented life Rendered by Charles Scamahorn (1935- ) 2014

Paragraph 4When about to do something, for example going to a public swimming pool, consider what type of activity it is, and what kinds of things happen there. Prepare yourself for how you might respond to those things with some forethought. Typically you will be splashed, pushed…

Epictetus – Enchiridion – A manual of Stoic living. Paragraph 2

Epictetus (55-135 CE) Enchiridion A manual for living a contented life Rendered by Charles Scamahorn (1935-fl. 2014) 2014

Paragraph 2Observe that your choice to get something good creates the hope of obtaining it, and your choice to avoid something bad generates the expectation of it not happening. But, if you fail to get the good thing you hoped for you will feel disappointed, and if the thing…

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