Discourses (Unabridged)
Epictetus
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Have you ever felt tossed by circumstance, like a ship in a storm? Is happiness elusive, flickering just out of reach? Epictetus, a former slave who found freedom within himself, offers a path. In his frank and inspiring "Discourses," you'll discover a philosophy for enduring hardship, finding tranquility, and living a virtuous life. Learn to control your reactions, focus on what truly matters, and discover the wellspring of happiness within yourself. Embrace tranquility and purpose – begin your Stoic journey today.
Duration - 10h 47m.
Author - Epictetus.
Narrator - Digital Voice Marcus G.
Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2022 Falcon Press ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Have you ever felt tossed by circumstance, like a ship in a storm? Is happiness elusive, flickering just out of reach? Epictetus, a former slave who found freedom within himself, offers a path. In his frank and inspiring "Discourses," you'll discover a philosophy for enduring hardship, finding tranquility, and living a virtuous life. Learn to control your reactions, focus on what truly matters, and discover the wellspring of happiness within yourself. Embrace tranquility and purpose – begin your Stoic journey today. Duration - 10h 47m. Author - Epictetus. Narrator - Digital Voice Marcus G. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2022 Falcon Press ©.
Language:
English
Titlepage
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Preface
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Book I
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I: Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power
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II: How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character
Duration:00:07:34
III: How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest
Duration:00:01:49
IV: Of Progress or Improvement
Duration:00:06:41
V: Against the Academics
Duration:00:01:59
VI: Of Providence
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VII: Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like
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VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
Duration:00:03:01
IX: How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences
Duration:00:07:30
X: Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome
Duration:00:02:53
XI: Of Natural Affection
Duration:00:08:47
XII: Of Contentment
Duration:00:07:23
XIII: How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods
Duration:00:01:14
XIV: That the Deity Oversees All Things
Duration:00:03:34
XV: What Philosophy Promises
Duration:00:01:44
XVI: Of Providence
Duration:00:03:53
XVII: That the Logical Art Is Necessary
Duration:00:05:42
XVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others
Duration:00:05:35
XIX: How We Should Behave to Tyrants
Duration:00:06:10
XX: About Reason, How It Contemplates Itself
Duration:00:03:59
XXI: Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired
Duration:00:00:48
XXII: On Precognitions
Duration:00:04:46
XXIII: Against Epicurus
Duration:00:01:45
XXIV: How We Should Struggle with Circumstances
Duration:00:04:10
XXV: On the Same
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XXVI: What Is the Law of Life
Duration:00:04:25
XXVII: In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them
Duration:00:04:50
XXVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What Are the Small and the Great Things Among Men
Duration:00:07:28
XXIX: On Constancy (Or Firmness)
Duration:00:14:27
XXX: What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances
Duration:00:01:40
Book II
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I: That Confidence (Courage) Is Not Inconsistent with Caution
Duration:00:09:36
II: Of Tranquillity (Freedom from Perturbation)
Duration:00:05:03
III: To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers
Duration:00:01:27
IV: Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery
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V: How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care
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VI: Of Indifference
Duration:00:05:45
VII: How We Ought to Use Divination
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VIII: What Is the Nature (Ἡ Οὐσία) of the Good
Duration:00:07:13
IX: That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher
Duration:00:05:24
X: How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names
Duration:00:06:45
XI: What the Beginning of Philosophy Is
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XII: Of Disputation or Discussion
Duration:00:05:30
XIII: On Anxiety (Solicitude)
Duration:00:06:36
XIV: To Naso
Duration:00:06:44
XV: To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined
Duration:00:04:14
XVI: That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil
Duration:00:11:19
XVII: How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
Duration:00:09:46
XVIII: How We Should Struggle Against Appearances
Duration:00:06:32
XIX: Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words
Duration:00:09:25
XX: Against the Epicureans and Academics
Duration:00:09:42
XXI: Of Inconsistency
Duration:00:05:48
XXII: On Friendship
Duration:00:09:59
XXIII: On the Power of Speaking
Duration:00:12:23
XXIV: To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed) by Him
Duration:00:07:49
XXV: That Logic Is Necessary
Duration:00:00:36
XXVI: What Is the Property of Error
Duration:00:01:55
Book III
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I: Of Finery in Dress
Duration:00:12:08
II: In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency; and That We Neglect the Chief Things
Duration:00:05:28
III: What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should Be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves
Duration:00:06:07
IV: Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre
Duration:00:03:15
V: Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home
Duration:00:04:25
VI: Miscellaneous
Duration:00:02:35
VII: To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean
Duration:00:08:58
VIII: How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίας)
Duration:00:02:13
IX: To a Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit
Duration:00:06:07
X: In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness
Duration:00:05:07
XI: Certain Miscellaneous Matters
Duration:00:00:59
XII: About Exercise
Duration:00:04:43
XIII: What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is
Duration:00:06:10
XIV: Certain Miscellaneous Matters
Duration:00:02:29
XV: That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything
Duration:00:03:45
XVI: That We Ought with Caution to Enter Into Familiar Intercourse with Men
Duration:00:03:35
XVII: On Providence
Duration:00:01:51
XVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News
Duration:00:02:21
XIX: What Is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher
Duration:00:01:34
XX: That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things
Duration:00:04:32
XXI: Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists
Duration:00:05:41
XXII: About Cynism
Duration:00:28:12
XXIII: To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation
Duration:00:10:40
XXIV: That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power
Duration:00:30:21
XXV: To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose
Duration:00:02:42
XXVI: To Those Who Fear Want
Duration:00:10:14
Book IV
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I: About Freedom
Duration:00:48:11
II: On Familiar Intimacy
Duration:00:02:37
III: What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things
Duration:00:02:53
IV: To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquillity
Duration:00:14:23
V: Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious
Duration:00:10:16
VI: Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied
Duration:00:11:05
VII: On Freedom from Fear
Duration:00:12:05
VIII: Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress
Duration:00:11:44
IX: To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness
Duration:00:04:35
X: What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value
Duration:00:09:04
XI: About Purity (Cleanliness)
Duration:00:09:50
XII: On Attention
Duration:00:05:23
XIII: Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs
Duration:00:05:48