The second son of a wealthy family, Seneca was educated in the philosophy of the Sextii. This was heavily influenced by stoicism, whose followers believed that virtue is based on knowledge and ...
Some Christians think Seneca’s ideas are proto-Christian, but could they be proto-Morrissey, too? "In Our Time" reviving my love of the classical period &philosophy. Fascinated by Stoic ...
Many times, unexpectedly and without any planning, life seems to push us to make big changes or start anew. However, these ...
where I found a vintage paperback from the 1960s that included a few more of Stoicism’s greatest hits by Seneca and Marcus ...
He had noticed that a growing number of people were turning to the teachings of Seneca or Marcus Aurelius ... in selected readings and exercise basic Stoic principles. They were urged, for example ...
Stoicism takes its name from a covered walkway ... These include Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, Seneca and the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The most approachable of these is the emperor, whose day book ...