Moral Essays

Informationen zum Autor John William Basore (b. 1870) was Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Klappentext Seneca's Stoic philosophy is captured in his "Moral Essays." On Providence (which tries to answer the question: why, if god is omnipotent, do good people suffer), On Constancy (on Stoic self-sufficiency), On Anger, and On Clemency (addressed to the emperor Nero) are included in the first of this three-volume edition. Zusammenfassung In Moral Essays, Seneca expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy life, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, and gift-giving.

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• Authors: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Assisted by: J.W. Basore (Translation), John W. Basore (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.1979
• EAN: 9780674992368
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99236-8
• No. of pages: 470
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 169 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]; Seneca
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, Literarische Essays, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500