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Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 1-26 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 1-26 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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"' Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in
the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted
to direct the will, to purify the heart, and to confirm the
understanding, by a just confidence in the nature both of God and
man.'"Edward Gibbon"""'This book, written by a "pagan" philosopher,
makes the most Christian impression conceivable. The betrayal of
all reality through morality is here present in its fullest
splendour - pitiful psychology, the philosopher is reduced to a
country parson. And Plato is to blame for all of it He remains
Europe's greatest misfortune '"Fredrich Nietzsche Of these two
rival reactions the favourable one was most common. Epictetus'
"Handbook" on ethics was used in Christian monasteries, and
Simplicius' commentary on it was widely available up to the
nineteenth century. The commentary gives us a fascinating chance to
see how a pagan Neoplatonist transformed Stoic ideas, adding
Neoplatonist accounts of theology, theodicy, providence, free will
and the problem of evil. This translation of the Commentary on the
"Handbook "is published in two volumes. This is the first, covering
chapters 1-26; the second covers chapters 27-53.
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