{"id":3323,"date":"2019-02-12T02:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2019-02-12T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:54:40","slug":"epictetus-stoic-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/epictetus-stoic-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Epictetus : Stoic philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher.  He was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability. Like Socrates, he too had not written anything. Some of his students collected his sayings and converted it into an Enchiridion (a book containing essential information on a subject.)I remember <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natehc\">Chetan<\/a> telling me about this book while I was in my journey of finding myself. We visited Blossom Book House where it was unavailable and hence I ordered an e-copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original book was written in Greek centuries ago.  Over the period, it has been translated into many languages.  I liked the translation by  William Abbott Oldfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVN-DqUqyS8?rel=0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I have shared this link with many of you and many of my tweets has Epictetus discourses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After J. Krishnamurti, Epictetus has been the closest one whose teaching I could closely relate to. I have shared <a href=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/notes-from-reading-enchiridion-by-epictetus\/\">my kindle note of the book earlier<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t think it is sufficient. We all have our own journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability. Like Socrates, he too had not written anything. Some of his students collected his sayings and converted it into an Enchiridion (a book containing essential information on a subject.)I remember Chetan telling me about this book while I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/epictetus-stoic-philosopher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Epictetus : Stoic philosopher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,100,1],"tags":[379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}