Reading group: Epictetus’s Handbook, about ten short chapters a week for five weeks

The Handbook (Enchiridion) is a pocket digest of Epictetus's teaching, compiled by his pupil Arrian, who also wrote up the longer Discourses. It is short enough to read on a bus and dense enough to argue about for a month. Our Book corner page is here: Handbook (Enchiridion).

Plan, about ten chapters a week:

• Week 1, chapters 1–10. The opening division between what is up to us and what is not. Chapter 5: people are disturbed not by things but by their judgements about things.
• Week 2, chapters 11–21. "Never say I have lost it, say I have given it back."
• Week 3, chapters 22–33. Making progress, being laughed at, and the practical rules of chapter 33.
• Week 4, chapters 34–45. Pleasure, roles and other people's words.
• Week 5, chapters 46–53. Not calling yourself a philosopher, and the closing lines from Cleanthes and Socrates.

One question to carry through: chapter 3 advises that when you kiss your child, you should tell yourself you are kissing a human being, so that if the child dies you will not be undone. Is that wisdom about love, or a refusal of it? Keep a note of where you stand in week 1, and see if it has moved by week 5.

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