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  title info:
    title: Epictetus
    sub title: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life
  title info:
    title: Stoic and Socratic guide to life
  name:
    name part: Long, A. A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)
  abstract: The Discourses of Epictetus, an emancipated Graeco-Roman slave, are the most powerful surviving record of an ancient Stoic teacher at work. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Epictetus' philosophy as a guide to life, focusing on his dialectical methodology, principal ideas, and long-term influence. It also shows, for the first time, how strongly he aligned his thought and educational goals with those of the Platonic Socrates. The first part of the book treats Epictetus' intellectual and cultural context and the conversational style of the Discourses. In the second part, the core of his philosophy is found to consist in four fundamental themes: freedom, judgement, volition, and integrity. The book is also intended to serve as a guide to reading and sampling Epictetus, and it includes numerous excerpts from the Discourses in the author's original translations. Long finds Epictetus a thinker whose theism (though non-Christian) is strikingly personalist, and whose acute psychological analysis scarcely needs updating.
  table of contents: Epictetus in his time and place -- The discourses -- The Socratic paradigm -- Philosophy and pedagogy -- Reading Epictetus -- Natures : divine, human, animal -- From theology to ethics -- Autonomy and integrity -- Appropriate actions and feelings -- The afterlife of Epictetus.
  note: A.A. Long.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and indexes.
  note: English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Epictetus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Épictète
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Epictetus
  subject:
    topic: Stoics
  subject:
    topic: Stoïcisme
  subject:
    topic: stoicism
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: History & Surveys
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: Stoics
  subject:
    topic: Stoa
  subject:
    topic: Socratici
  classification: B563 .L66 2002b E-book
  classification: 188
  classification: 08.21
  classification: CD 5117
  classification: FH 61203
  classification: 5,1
  classification: 6,12
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    title info:
      title: Epictetus
    name:
      name part: Long, A.A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
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    record creation date: 040408
    record change date: 20260318172235.6
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      language term: eng