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Across Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient, and Philosophy — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus.

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The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius — Pierre Hadot

The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Discourses of the Elders The Aztec Huehuetlatolli a First English Translation — Sebastian Purcell

Discourses of the Elders The Aztec Huehuetlatolli a First English Translation

Sebastian Purcell

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Letters from a Stoic — Seneca

Letters from a Stoic

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle on Ethics — Gerard J. Hughes

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle on Ethics

Gerard J. Hughes

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The Teachings of Ptahhotep The Oldest Book in the World — Ptahhotep

The Teachings of Ptahhotep The Oldest Book in the World

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Greek Heroes in and Out of Hades — Stamatia Dova

Greek Heroes in and Out of Hades

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The Allegory of the Cave — Plato

The Allegory of the Cave

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Selected Letters — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Selected Letters

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Moral Values and Political Behavior in Ancient Greece — A. W. Adkins

Moral Values and Political Behavior in Ancient Greece

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Maat Revealed, Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt — Anna Mancini

Maat Revealed, Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The Forty Two Precepts of Maat, the Philosophy of Righteous Action and the Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts — Muata Ashby

The Forty Two Precepts of Maat, the Philosophy of Righteous Action and the Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The History of Evil in Antiquity 2000 BDE-450 CE — Tom Angier

The History of Evil in Antiquity 2000 BDE-450 CE

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

On the Soul And Other Psychological Works — Aristotle

On the Soul And Other Psychological Works

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The Meditations of Marcius Aurelius — George Long

The Meditations of Marcius Aurelius

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

On Benefits — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

The Practicing Stoic A Philosophical User’s Manual — Ward Farnsworth

The Practicing Stoic A Philosophical User’s Manual

Ward Farnsworth

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

An the de Senectute, de Amicitia, Paradoxa, and Somnium Scipionis of Cicero, and the Life of Atticus, by Cornelius Nepos, with English Notes, Critical — Marcus Tullius Cicero

An the de Senectute, de Amicitia, Paradoxa, and Somnium Scipionis of Cicero, and the Life of Atticus, by Cornelius Nepos, with English Notes, Critical

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Why You Think the Way You Do The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home — Glenn S. Sunshine

Why You Think the Way You Do The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home

Glenn S. Sunshine

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Aristotle’s Politics A Critical Guide — Thornton Lockwood

Aristotle’s Politics A Critical Guide

Thornton Lockwood

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Meditations With Selected Correspondence — Marcus Aurelius

Meditations With Selected Correspondence

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Plato’s Meno in Focus — Jane Mary Day

Plato’s Meno in Focus

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

Hierocles the Stoic Elements of Ethics, Fragments and Excerpts — Ilaria Ramelli

Hierocles the Stoic Elements of Ethics, Fragments and Excerpts

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ancient • Philosophy

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