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The Enchiridion: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (Epictetus)

By: Epictetus, James Harris
Narrated by: Jason Sprenger
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Summary

The Enchiridion

The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus (Enchiridion is Greek for "that which is held in the hand") is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice.

This manual has been carefully adapted in to modern English to allow for easy listening.

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©2017 James Harris (P)2017 James Harris
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I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Though giving a good description of stoicism, there are some nuggets of advice that are pretty difficult to follow. This includes the comparison of a family to a pot.
There are some good maxims that society nowadays would be worth living by, including #5, #8 and #30, among others, but for the most part, it would be pretty difficult to follow all of Epictetus's advice.

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Interesting stuff, but the narrator is disengaged.

Some fascinating stuff in Epictetus's writings and a must for all scholars of Stoicism. The translation is fairly decent but once again the narrator sounds like he couldn't be less interested in what he's reading.

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