A compact handbook of Stoic ethics drawn from the teaching of the former slave Epictetus. Its core lesson is to separate what is in our control from what is not, finding freedom by mastering our own judgments.
Sources for Epictetus — Enchiridion
Epictetus — Enchiridion in Philosophy
Held in the Philosophy chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Plato — Republic (−375)
- Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics (−340)
- Confucius — Analects (−475)
- Mencius — Mencius (−300)
- Laozi — Tao Te Ching (−400)
- Zhuang Zhou — Zhuangzi (−300)
- Marcus Aurelius — Meditations (180)
- Epicurus — Letter to Menoeceus; Principal Doctrines (−300)
- Spinoza — Ethics (1677)
- Hume — An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
- Kant — Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
- Bentham — An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
- Mill — Utilitarianism (1863)
- Nietzsche — Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality (1886)
- Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)