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Discourses of Epictetus

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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)

Chapters

Introduction and Preface

14:49

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Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power

8:50

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II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character

9:20

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III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of Al…

2:47

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IV. Of Progress or Improvement

9:10

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V. Against the Academics

3:01

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VI. Of Providence

11:00

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VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like

9:07

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VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed

4:19

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IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Conseque…

9:59

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X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome

4:09

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XI. Of Natural Affection

10:58

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XII. Of Contentment

9:26

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XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods

2:09

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XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things

5:15

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XV. What Philosophy Promises

2:38

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XVI. Of Providence

5:17

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XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary

7:30

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XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others

7:19

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XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants

7:54

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XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself

5:06

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XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired

1:20

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XXII. On Precognition

5:52

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XXIII. Against Epicurus

2:30

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XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances

5:13

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XXV. On the Same

8:13

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XXVI. What is the Law of Life

5:24

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XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Aga…

6:13

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XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the …

9:27

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XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)

18:06

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XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances

2:23

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Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution

12:15

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II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)

6:09

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III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers

2:08

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IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery

3:54

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V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care

8:45

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VI. Of Indifference

6:51

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VII. How We Ought to Use Divination

4:10

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VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good

9:06

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IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We A…

7:08

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X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names

8:40

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XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is

7:11

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XII. Of Disputation or Discussion

6:51

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XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)

8:22

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XIV. To Naso

8:41

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XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined

5:57

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XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil

14:57

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XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases

12:04

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XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances

8:15

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XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words

11:10

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XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics

12:31

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XXI. Of Inconsistency

7:14

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XXII. On Friendship

12:43

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XXIII. On the Power of Speaking

14:44

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XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteem…

9:28

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XXV. That Logic is Necessary

1:05

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XXVI. What Is the Property of Error

2:51

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Book III I. Of Finery in Dress

13:59

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II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Ne…

6:31

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III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We …

7:14

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IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre

4:07

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V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home

5:30

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VI. Miscellaneous

3:27

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VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean

10:33

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VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ)

2:59

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IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit

7:28

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X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness

6:42

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XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters

1:39

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XII. About Exercise

6:15

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XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is

8:03

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XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters

3:21

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XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything

5:08

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XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men

4:34

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XVII. On Providence

2:36

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XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News

2:46

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XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher

2:12

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XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things

5:38

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XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists

7:22

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XXII. About Cynism

32:54

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XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation

13:07

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XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not i…

38:46

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XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose

3:44

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XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want

13:16

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Book IV I. About Freedom

58:32

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II. On Familiar Intimacy

3:37

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III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things

4:03

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IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility

18:07

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V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious

13:16

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VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied

14:02

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VII. On Freedom From Fear

15:16

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VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress

14:54

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IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness

6:21

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X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value

12:29

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XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)

13:06

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XII. On Attention

7:18

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XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs

8:22

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