Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
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ISBN: 9780140442106
Author | Seneca |
Pub Date | 26/08/2004 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 256 |
Country | GBR |
Dewey | 188 |
Quick overview A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature", Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. Seneca's contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.