Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 3: On Being Sprung From God
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🗓️ 27 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan presents an excerpt from one of the seminal texts of Stoicism, the Discourses of Epictetus, read by Michael Reid. As a series of lectures given by Epictetus that were written down by his pupil Arrian in 108 A.D., these discourses provide practical advice to think on and practice in order to move oneself closer toward the ultimate goal of living free and happy. In this third section, Epictetus discusses how we should see ourselves in comparison with the gods.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.6 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
| 0:25.5 | We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly |
| 0:30.1 | that you're able to apply it to your actual life. |
| 0:33.6 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:37.9 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast bringing you an excerpt from |
| 0:53.2 | Epic Titus today. |
| 0:55.4 | This is read to you by Michael Reed who does a lot of the really cool YouTube voice overs. |
| 1:00.9 | You might have heard this is Epic Titus drawing from the discourses book three something |
| 1:08.4 | Epic Titus can always teach us. |
| 1:09.9 | I love just thinking man, rusticist gave Marcus a really a copy of these lectures and that's |
| 1:16.1 | what so shaped inform this guy's life and so shaped informed his philosophy, his understanding |
| 1:20.2 | of Stoicism and I'm bringing that episode from Epic Titus is discourses now. |
| 1:25.8 | We carry a copy of this here at the bookstore. |
| 1:28.0 | I like the Penguin Classics translation best myself and like I said, this was read by Michael |
| 1:34.0 | Reed. |
| 1:37.8 | Imagine you're walking down the street and you see someone famous, really famous. |
| 1:51.6 | What do you do? |
| 1:53.6 | Play it cool or stop and stare? |
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