The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments

Contents

PREFACE
NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION
MAP
INTRODUCTION

Handbook

Discourses

PREFACE

1.1: What is and is not up to us
1.2: How to preserve conformity with one’s role in every situation
1.3: How one may proceed from the fact that God is the father of humankind to its consequences
1.4: On progress
1.5: Against the Academics
1.6: On providence
1.7: On the use of changing arguments, hypothetical arguments, and the like
1.8: That our faculties are not without danger for uneducated people
1.9: How one may proceed from the fact of our kinship with God to its consequences
1.10: To those who are intent on advancement at Rome
1.11: On family affection
1.12: On contentment
1.13: How to do whatever we do in a way that pleases the gods
1.14: That the Deity watches over us all
1.15: The prospect held out by philosophy
1.16: On providence
1.17: On the indispensability of logic
1.18: That one should not get angry with people for their mistakes
1.19: The proper attitude to have toward tyrants
1.20: On reason and its ability to examine itself
1.21: To those who want to be admired
1.22: On preconceptions
1.23: Against Epicurus
1.24: How to combat difficult circumstances
1.25: The same topic
1.26: What is the law of life?
1.27: How many ways are there for impressions to arise, and what resources should we make sure we have at hand to help us with them?
1.28: That we ought not to get angry with people, and what is trivial or important in human life
1.29: On self-possession
1.30: What we should have at hand in difficult circumstances

2.1: That confidence and caution are not incompatible
2.2: On tranquility
2.3: To those who recommend people to philosophers
2.4: To a man who had once been caught in adultery
2.5: How are greatness of mind and carefulness compatible?
2.6: On indifference
2.7: The correct way to go about divination
2.8: The essence of goodness
2.9: That despite our inability to fulfill our potential as human beings, we assume the mantle of philosophy as well
2.10: How the names that a person bears reveal what behavior is appropriate for him
2.11: The starting point of philosophy
2.12: On argument
2.13: On anxiety
2.14: To Naso
2.15: To those who cling obstinately to certain of their decisions
2.16: That in practice we fail to apply our judgments about what is good and bad
2.17: How to apply preconceptions to particular cases
2.18: How to combat impressions
2.19: To those who take up philosophy just to enhance their conversation
2.20: Against the Epicureans and Academics
2.21: On inconsistency
2.22: On friendship
2.23: On rhetoric
2.24: To someone who Epictetus thought did not have what it takes
2.25: On the indispensability of logic
2.26: What is it that makes a mistake a mistake?

3.1: On personal adornment
3.2: The training a person needs if he is to progress, and that we neglect what is most important
3.3: What the material is that a good person works with, and what the primary orientation of one’s training should be
3.4: To someone who expressed immoderate support in the theater
3.5: To those who quit school because of illness
3.6: A miscellany
3.7: To the Corrector responsible for the free Greek cities, who was an Epicurean
3.8: How we should train ourselves to deal with impressions
3.9: To an orator who was on his way to Rome for a lawsuit
3.10: How to bear illness
3.11: A miscellany
3.12: On training
3.13: What loneliness is and the kind of person who is lonely
3.14: A miscellany
3.15: That we should approach everything with circumspection
3.16: That venturing into company requires caution
3.17: On providence
3.18: That there is no need for news to worry us
3.19: How a non-philosopher’s stance differs from that of a philosopher
3.20: That it is possible to turn every external circumstance to good account
3.21: To people who too readily set out to become lecturers
3.22: On Cynicism
3.23: To those who give readings and lectures just to be admired
3.24: On the necessity of not being attached to things that are not up to us
3.25: To those who fail to see their projects through to completion
3.26: To those who fear destitution

4.1: On freedom
4.2: On social intercourse
4.3: What should be exchanged for what
4.4: To those who are intent on living a quiet life
4.5: Against those who are pugnacious and fierce
4.6: To those who find the pity of others distressful
4.7: On freedom from fear
4.8: To those who rush to assume the guise of philosophers
4.9: To someone who had lapsed into shamelessness
4.10: What we should treat as unimportant and what should matter to us
4.11: On cleanliness
4.12: On paying attention
4.13: On those who too readily share personal information

Fragments

NOTES

TEXTUAL NOTES

RECOMMENDED READING

INDEX