the daily stoic

W STAYING STOIC e hope this book has lasted you a year (though we won’t fault you if you read through it without regard to the d ...

L A MODEL OF LATE STOIC PRACTICE AND GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS AND PASSAGES ate Stoic thought of the second century, as articulated ...

which has to do with the passions, for strong emotions arise only when we fail in our desires and aversions.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOU ...

Visit bit.ly/2dC85K1 for a larger version of this table. Adiaphora (ἀδιάφορα): indifferent things; neither good nor bad in an ab ...

and is completely free. A “beautiful human being” possesses the virtues (Discourses 3.1.6b–9). We must be a “unified human being ...

Askêsis (ἄσκησις): exercise, practice, disciplined training designed to achieve virtue. Epictetus sees three areas of training ( ...

Dikaiosunê (δικαιοσύνη): justice, righteousness. Diogenes Laertius noted that for the Stoics, it meant “being in harmony with th ...

anxiety (Discourses 2.13.1). Our judgments about what is up to us determine our freedom (3.26.34– 35). Epistêmê (ἐπιστήμη): cert ...

For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke ...

as in 4.22, where he says every impulse should be subject to the claims of justice and keeping our convictions clear. Kathêkon ( ...

control (8.7). The verb form, ὀρέγω/oregô, meaning to reach out for, yearn for, often appears and in many instances it occurs wi ...

Prohairesis (προαίρεσις): reasoned or deliberative choice, our free will to choose, the sphere of choice. The term goes back to ...

to reject (see chart). It appears eight times in noun form and twenty-one times in verb form in Epictetus: 3.2.1–3a, 3.8.4, and ...

A A WORD ON THE TRANSLATIONS, REFERENCES, AND SOURCES ll the translations in this volume were rendered with the aid of two prima ...

enjoy the lyrical Gregory Hays (Modern Library); for a more literal modern rendering, particularly for precision with philosophi ...

I SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING n addition to the Loeb Classics and online resources at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu and the o ...

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