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Epictetus
The Enchiridion or Stoic Handbook - A Modern Rendering with Interpretations
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36091641
EAN: 9798188200695
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Mo, 09.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 23.–
Beschreibung
Nothing can touch you unless you let it. That is the most dangerous idea ever written down - and the man who wrote it was born a slave, crippled by his master, exiled by Rome. His name was Epictetus, and his short handbook, the Enchiridion. , has been the entry point to Stoicism for nineteen centuries. The trouble is, almost every edition is unreadable - archaic, stiff, and never telling you what any of it actually means. Two things make this book different. The text is clean and modern - three classic translations (Oldfather, Long, Higginson) read line against line and resolved into one clear rendering. No fog. No academic hedging. And after every one of the fifty-three chapters comes a short interpretation - in the tradition of The 48 Laws of Power. Not a summary. The logic exposed, the application made concrete: what the chapter says, why it works, and what to do with it before the day is over. This is what no free edition gives you - and the reason to own this one. What you'll learn:. How to stop wagering your happiness on things you don't control. How to take an insult without flinching. How to want what actually happens - so nothing can disappoint you. The one discovery behind both Stoicism and modern cognitive therapy: it is never the event that breaks you, but your judgment of it - and your judgment belongs entirely to you. Two thousand years ago, a slave figured out how to be freer than his masters - and this is the manual he left behind. Rendered and interpreted by Robert Whitfield.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Robert Whitfield
- Epictetus
- Arrian
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 112