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Entretiens: Fragment et sentences (Bibliotheque Des Textes Philosophiques - Poche)

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Epictète est connu principalement à travers deux textes, les Entretiens et le Manuel. Ce dernier ouvrage a bénéficié d'une large diffusion, et il est disponible en français dans plusieurs traductions de qualité; c'est la raison pour laquelle il ne figure pas dans ce volume. Court et maniable, le Manuel ne donne cependant qu'une image incomplète de la pensée et de la personnalité d'Epictète. Les Entretiens au contraire nous offrent toute la diversité des exemples et commentaires par lesquels Epictète éclaire sa permanente invitation à la philosophie (c'est-à-dire, à ses yeux, au bonheur), et ce en les rapportant de façon rigoureuse au système stoïcien. Beaucoup plus étendus, les Entretiens constituent de ce fait une pièce majeure de la littérature stoïcienne. On en trouvera ici le texte intégral en format de poche, accompagné pour la première fois de la traduction française des Fragments et des Sentences qui complètent heureusement sur plusieurs points les Entretiens.

536 pages, Pocket Book

First published September 15, 2015

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Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

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