Epictetus Core Concept Videos

These are shorter, more closely focused videos (10-30 minutes long), each of which is focused on one key idea in a philosophical thinker's text.  This list will be constantly growing for the next several years -- so check in every once in a while to see new material I've added.

• What Is and What Isn't in our Control
• The Nature of Freedom
• Rationality, the Ruling Part 
• The Faculty of Choice (Prohairesis)
• Indifference in Things

• The Beginning of Philosophy
• The Three Fields (Topoi) of Study
• Preconceptions (Proleipseis)  
• The Use of Argument and Logic 
• Knowing the Prices of Things 
• Processes of Practical Reasoning

• Habits and Practice
• Training (Askesis)
• Attention or Mindfulness 
• Dealing with Appearances  
• Inconsistency and Moral Failings
• Stubbornness or Obstinancy
• False Peace and Leisure as Ends

• Duties, Roles, and Relationships
• Stoic Cosmopolitanism 
• Authority and Moral Example 
• Conditions for Genuine Friendship
• Social Intercourse 
• Contentiousness And Its Opposite  
• Subjecting Desires to Other People

• Confidence, Caution, and Concern 
• Epictetus on Anxiety (Agonia)
• Understanding and Addressing Anger
• Epictetus on Familial Affection
• Solitude or Forlornness
• Not Wanting Pity  

• Dealing with Illness 
• Irrational Fears 
• Personal Appearance and Beauty
• Cleanliness and Purification 
• Lust and Adultery

• Divine Providence
• Human Relations to the Divine
• Willing What God Wills 

• Epictetus' Criticisms of Academic Skepticism 
• Epictetus' Criticisms of Epicureanism
• Epictetus' Evaluation of Cynicism
• Socrates as a Stoic Sage
• The Profession of a Stoic Philosopher
• The Master Argument