Manual de estoicismo

Through the fifty-three pieces that make up the Manual, Epictetus -raised as a slave in Nero's turbulent Rome- offers us the principles of the Stoic Philosophy, a current of which, together with the emperor Marcus Aurelius and the philosopher Seneca, is the highest representative. Through sharp and accurate reflections and clear and uncompromising language, Epictetus proposes Stoic ethics as a starting point in the search for peace of mind and happiness. The union between moral reflection and its practical aspect that occurs in the Manual and in the two pieces of his diatribes included in this volume ("How to act before tyrants" and "Against troublesome and savages") contributes to stoicism be perceived as a philosophical current capable of influencing day-to-day actions.