How to Be Free - An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life EpictetusPevná vazba
How to Be Free - An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life EpictetusPevná vazba A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic…
Specifikacia How to Be Free - An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life EpictetusPevná vazba
How to Be Free - An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life EpictetusPevná vazba
A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. In How to Be Free, A. A. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison.
We can all be free, but only if we learn to assign paramount value to what we can Long--one of the world's leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival--provides a superb new edition of Epictetus's celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses.Freedom, for Epictetus, is not a human right or a political prerogative but a psychological and ethical achievement, a gift that we alone can bestow on ourselves.