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Discourses and the Enchiridion

Discourses and the Enchiridion

Epictetus · 108

4 chapters · 149 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

The Discourses, Part I — What Is in Our Power

~66 min · 33 pages

The Discourses, Part II — Tranquillity, Duties, and Philosophy

~96 min · 46 pages

The Discourses, Part III — Freedom, Cynicism, and the Stoic Way

~101 min · 51 pages

The Encheiridion (The Manual)

~41 min · 19 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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