Discourses by Epictetus

Read the full post at - Discourses by Epictetus I picked up The Discourses by Epictetus from Standard Ebooks, then ended up buying the print Penguin edition as well. Stoic philosophy has had waves of popularity over the years, and I love that the most recent wave has brought a blossoming of new translations, resources, and accessible texts. What makes this particularly valuable is that the original texts of Stoic philosophy are still around and still handed down. The three big ones—Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus—are all different and complementary. Seneca writes in the form of letters. Marcus Aurelius writes in the form of personal journaling. Epictetus, of the three, writes more systematically. You’re essentially reading his lectures. I appreciate the wisdom in Stoic philosophy. There’s a lot there. And it’s embedded in so much of our modern thought. From Pauline Christianity to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – it’s sort of “in the air” even if we’ve never noticed it. And even…