The Handbook The Encheiridion by Epictetus PAPERBACK 9780915145690

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The Handbook (The Encheiridion)Author(s): Epictetus, Nicholas P. White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, United States\nImprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\nISBN-13: 9780915145690, 978-0915145690\nSynopsis\nFrom the Introduction: \""Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. [url] [tel] is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 [url] Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes). He was born in Cyprus about 336 [url] but all of his philosophical activity took place in Athens. For more than 500 years Stoicism was one of the most influential and fruitful philosophical movements in the Graeco-Roman world. The works of the earlier Stoics survive only in fragmentary quotations from other authors, but from the Renaissance until well into the nineteenth century, Stoic ethical thought was one of the most important ancient influences on European ethics, particularly because of the descri""