Epictetus - The Enchiridion .A Stoic Handbook - A Christian Response

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Episode Contents.

Part I.       Epictetus's 'The Enchiridion’. 

I.     Introduction. 

II.      Biography - His Life.

III.     What He though and taught.

IV.      His Influence.

A)      In Philosophy.

B)      In Literature, both classic and modern.

C)      In Cinema.

D)      In Military Special Services Training.

E)       In Secular Psychology.

Part 2.      A Christian Response.

I.        Background.

II.       Different view of God.  (Romans 8:28-39)

III.      Different view of the Human Soul.

IV.     Virtues Vs Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)

"Love and do what you will." - Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

V.      Different View on the Afterlife.

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien.

"If God had wants me otherwise, He can create me otherwise." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

VI.    Fatalism Verses Freewill. (Matthew  6:25-34)

"The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion. Maurice Blondel, L'Action

"Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.” Diary of a country Priest. Maurice Blondel.

VII.     Different View on Human Nature. (Colossians 3:1-17)

VIII.     Emotions – Good, Bad or Both.

IX.      Conclusion.

For References see  Transcript Page.

Transcript

References.

1. Discourses of Epictetus, 3.24.

2. Elizabeth Carter; Epictetus (9 July 2017). The Complete Works of Epictetus. Independently Published. ISBN 978-1521800355.

3. Rowan Stevens (28 February 2022). Wise Quotes – Epictetus (294 Epictetus Quotes): Greek Stoic

4. Epictetus, Discourses. i.7.32.

5. Epictetus, Discourses, i.9.29.

6. Origen, Contra Celcus. vii.

7. Simplicius, Commentary on the Enchiridion, 13.

8. Douglas J. Soccio, Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy (2012), p. 197

9. Suetonius, Domitian, x.

10. Epictetus, Discourses, prologue.

11. Epictetus, Discourses, i.11; ii.14; iii.2.1–6;iii.4; iii. 7; etc.

12. Enchiridion, 52

13. Epictetus, Enchiridion, 1

14. Enchiridion, 6

15. Enchiridion, 29

16. Enchiridion, 24, 37

17. Obituary: Vice Admiral James Stockdale The Guardian 2005

18. B., Stockdale, James (1995). Thoughts of a philosophical fighter pilot. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press. ISBN 0817993916. OCLC 32625408.

19. Burkeman, Oliver (2007-08-10). "Albert Ellis: Influential American psychologist who led the revolution in cognitive therapy". The Guardian.

20. Thanks to Professor John Callaghan . Prof of Politics and Contemporary History. University of Salford for his help in identifying the three phases of the History of Stoicism.

Reading List.

50 Spiritual Classics. Tom Butler- Brown Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2017

Works by Epictetus at Project Gutenberg.

All the Works of Epictetus, Which are Now Extant, Elizabeth Carter (trans.) (1758) ISBN 978-1171001867

Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, Robin Hard (trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0199595181