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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living and the importance of reason and morality and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 308 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Robin Campbell. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and...
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