ISBN: 9780674991453 - epictetus discourse books 1 and 2 (loeb classical library, band 131) (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Neros reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. He is the author of Discourses and a smaller Enceiridion, a handbook that encapsulates the doctrines of the larger work.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1989. Later reset & reprinted edition. xxxviii+ 436pp. This is a book in Near Fine condition with very little signs of having been read. Pages remain bright & clean, free of marks or underlining; Binding is firm & square. Green cloth boards are in excellent shape with only the slightest amount of shelf wear to edges & corners. DJ is slightly better than Near Fine condition, with the a little bit of bumping to corners, but free of tears, stains, or folds and now protected in mylar sleeve. Parallel Greek & English language text; Loeb Classics series #131. First published in 1925; translated by W.A. Oldfather.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 480 pages. 6.75x4.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school that he called 'healing place for sick souls' he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook that gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-138). Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit. How should one live righteously Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'. We must not resist fortune. Man is part of a system; humans are reasoning beings (in feeble bodies) and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect (Stoic) man. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.…

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Zustand: New. Unlike his predecessors, Epictetus (c. 50-120 CE), who grew up as a slave, taught Stoicism not for the select few but for the many. A student, the historian Arrian, recorded Epictetus s lectures and, in the Encheiridion, a handbook, summarized his thought.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Discourses, Books 1-2 | Epictetus | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 1989 | Harvard University Press | EAN 9780674991453 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.