Las obras filosóficas de Lucio Anneo Séneca (ca. 4 a.C.-65 d.C.) han ejercido un duradero influjo sobre la cultura occidental y contienen una formulación significativa de las ideas del estoicismo maduro."De la brevedad de la vida", dedicado a Paulino -quien probablemente era padre de su segunda mujer-, fue compuesto en el año 49 o 50. En él, Séneca afirma que la vida, aunque lo pueda parecer, no es breve, sino que es el individuo quien hace que así lo sea.El tema p...

Las obras filosóficas de Lucio Anneo SÉNECA (ca. 4 a.C.-65 d.C.) han ejercido un duradero influjo sobre la cultura occidental y contienen una formulación significativa de las ideas del estoicismo maduro.En "De la tranquilidad del ánimo" Séneca pone en el centro de la discusión el tema de la conciliación del permanente “cuidado de sí” con la atención a aquello que es “útil a la comunidad”, más aún: al género humano.Este escrito de Séneca, mejor que ...

Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca’s Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life through the use of rationalism. The letters provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that comes with life’s problems. Topics featured range from discussions on the shortness of life and anger to immortality and death.The ...

This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and social influence under Nero, before falling from favour and being forced to kill himself. The book analyzes the relationship of Seneca's life story to his literary self-fashioning, and the t...

Seneca ci insegna che la vita felice è l'equivalente di un'esistenza basata sulla spontaneità. Non serve dunque porsi domande su che cosa siamo, quale senso ha la vita, cosa ci riserverà il futuro...Perchè la felicità non è un elenco di giudizi ben definiti da applicare alla vita, ma una maniera di viverla.

Sliced Up Press is delighted to present its debut anthology, featuring sixteen sweetly sinister stories.Grab your fork and dig in to tales of tiered cakes and teary eyes, plump currants and sinister undercurrents, all-consuming hunger and bizarre gluttony. There's something for all tastes here, though you might think twice before ordering dessert...With all-new fiction from:Tiffany Michelle BrownV CastroBelinda FergusonDougla...

She’s a rejected hybrid who’s never shifted. He’s a protective bear who’s waited his whole life for his mate.After losing her parents to her father’s vengeful pride, half-human, half-tiger Solstice found refuge among jaguar shifters—but without the ability to shift, she never truly belonged. When the new alpha casts Sunny out, she heads toward the only place that might accept someone like her—a secret shifter-run safari park.Bear shifter Seneca knows the moment he meets her...

"De la tranquilidad del ánimo" de Séneca es un ensayo que explora la naturaleza de la paz interior y la serenidad mental en medio de las adversidades. Séneca argumenta que la verdadera tranquilidad proviene de la aceptación de la realidad y la virtud, más que de las circunstancias externas. A través de reflexiones filosóficas y ejemplos de la vida cotidiana, ofrece consejos prácticos para cultivar la calma interior y enfrentar los desafíos con equilibrio y sabiduría. Destaca la importancia...

On Benefits (De Beneficiis) is a first-century work by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. It forms part of a series of moral essays (or Dialogues) composed by Seneca and is essential reading for students of Stoicism.On Benefits is about the nature of relative benefits to persons fulfilling the role in social exchange of either giver or receiver. The subject in Seneca's day might be thought of as social ethics, specifically Stoic ethics.

“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”- Lucius Annaeus Seneca.De Vita Beata or On the Happy Life is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated his dialogue entitled De Ira (On Anger). It is divided into 28 chapters that present the moral thoughts of Seneca at their most mature....

“No man was ever wise by chance.”― SenecaSeneca's Dialogues—as his epistolary essays have traditionally been known— capture the full range of the Roman thinker’s philosophical interests, in particular Stoicism and his unique interpretation of it.Students of Stoicism will appreciate the further exploration of ideas touched on in Seneca’s Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium: the Dialogues illustrate ...

Senecas "Briefe an Lucilius" gehören zweifelsohne zu den wichtigsten und umfangreichsten Quellen zur Philosophie der Stoa. In 124 Briefen leitet der Philosoph seinen Freund und Schüler Lucilius in die Praxis stoischer Lebensführung ein, in der festen Überzeugung, dass nur die Philosophie ein glückliches Leben garantieren könne. Dabei begreift Seneca die Stoa als Seelenheilkunde, die, von Lehrer wie Schüler diszipliniert verfolgt, zu innerer Unabhängigkeit, Unerschütterlichkeit und schließl...