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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics examines the highest human good and the character required for a flourishing life. Across ten Books, it develops influential accounts of happiness, habituation, the moral virtues, the…
View BookEpicurus' Letter to Menoeceus offers a concise guide to happiness through philosophy. It challenges fear of divine punishment and death, distinguishes necessary desires from groundless ones, and explains pleasure as…
View BookThis volume gathers sixty-eight selected Discourses of Epictetus in George Long's translation, excluding the separately published Enchiridion. Through direct teaching, argument and example, the selections examine agency, freedom, desire, providence,…
View BookThe Enchiridion is Epictetus' compact handbook of Stoic practice, compiled by his student Arrian in the early second century CE. Across fifty-one Roman-numbered sections in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's translation, it…
View BookThe Epistles of Seneca contains all 124 Moral Letters to Lucilius in Richard Mott Gummere's translation. Written around 62-65 CE, the collection examines time, friendship, mortality, wealth, pain, retirement, virtue…
View BookIn the fragmentary dialogue Of Leisure, Seneca asks whether a Stoic may withdraw from political life while remaining useful to humanity. Across eight surviving sections, he distinguishes idleness from contemplative…
View BookIn On Tranquillity of Mind, Serenus asks Seneca how to overcome a restless wavering between simplicity and luxury, public service and retirement, modest writing and ambition. Across seventeen sections, Seneca…
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