Category: Epictetus- Discourses

We further discuss the ‘Discourses’ for our Brisbane Stoics meetup. Given the heading of this reading, I thought it appropriate to start with a reflection from Seneca which is in Letter V. I view with pleasure and approval the way you keep on at your studies and sacrifice everything to your single-minded efforts to make…

We further discuss the ‘Discourses’ for our Brisbane Stoics meetup. How, from the idea that God is the father of human beings, one may proceed to what follows Today I will offer some of my thoughts on the next chapter of our readings. This time Discourses 1.3 Returning again to Christopher Gill’s observation concerning the…

In our Brisbane Stoics meetup in March, we started exploring the Discourses. In this video, I outline the core concepts of 1.2 Discourses: Hard Translation 1.2 How one may preserve one’s proper character in everything Introduction In my previous presentation concerning discourses 1.1 I included a quote from the introduction of the Hard translation by…

In our Brisbane Stoics meetup in February, we started exploring the Discourses. In this video, I outline the core concepts of 1.1 Concerning what is in our power and what is not Discourses: Hard Translation- Introduction “In 1.1 Epictetus begins by presenting the reasoning faculty as the one which, unlike other arts and faculties, comprehends…