عنوان

Epictetus Philosopher-Therapist

(Number (ISBN

9401190607

(Number (ISBN

9789401190602

Number

b556496

Title Proper

Epictetus Philosopher-Therapist

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Jason Xenakis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1969

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(141 pages)

Text of Note

I. Biography --;1. Life and Stoicism --;2. Teaching --;3. Writings --;4. Influence --;II. Life a Game --;5. Living for Happiness --;6. Suicide, Euthanasia, Death --;7. Knowledge for Living --;8. Rational Self --;III. Logical Topics --;9. Nature of Logical Studies --;10. Irrefutability and Epistemological Issues --;11. Logical Puzzles --;12. Operators and Kin Matters --;IV. Nature and God --;13. World Structure --;14. Providence --;15. Anthropocentrism --;16. Proofs of Design --;17. Cacodicy --;18. Hymns to God --;19. Zeus Inoperative? --;V. Value Theory --;20. Theic Notions --;21. Good a Protoconcept --;22. Value Relativity --;23. Value Criteria and Pleasure --;VI. Pain and Training --;24. Divisions of Ethics --;25. Learning Theory --;26. Rationalization and Erring --;27. Negative Ethics: A Look --;VII. Preventive Ethics --;28. Forestall, Resist, Ease --;29. Control Test --;30. Anxiety and Fear --;31. Other Safeguards --;32. Resistance Methods --;VIII. Remedial Devices --;33. Examples --;34. 'It's fate' and Other Tonics --;35. Loneliness --;36. Objections --;IX. Social Remarks --;37. Independence and Outgoingness --;38. Man as Social --;39. Troubleshooting and Cosmopolitanism --;40. Legal Questions --;X. Afterthoughts.

Text of Note

His ethics is primarily pain-oriented: it consists of existential reminders, such as that things are ephemer al and people vulnerable, plus ways of avoiding and easing distress, induding training and thought-analysis, because he believed that people's troubles stern largely from silly habits and precon- ceptions.

Philosophy & Religion.

Philosophy (General)

Philosophy.

Class number

Book number

by Jason Xenakis.

Jason Xenakis

Electronic name

[Book]

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