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Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Epictetus, Edited & Trans. by Robert Dobbin is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) about?
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in h
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Epictetus, Edited & Trans. by Robert Dobbin
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140449464
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Fiction, Philosophy, History
- Rating
- 4.38 / 5 (832 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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