Epictetus
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Epictetus asks how a person can remain free when the body, possessions, status, and circumstances are vulnerable to others. This summary follows his answer: examine appearances, govern desire and assent, accept providential order, fulfill human roles, and turn philosophy into practiced conduct.
7 chapters
The Art of Living
The Art of Living recasts Stoic teaching as a practical question: what can a person govern when events, loss, status, and other people remain outside control? Its answer links clear judgment, disciplined desire, virtue, and humane duty to a steadier, freer way of acting in ordinary life.
6 chapters