Stoicism · c. 4 BCE — 65 CE
Seneca
Practise what you ask of life.
Corduba · Rome · Corsica
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Recover the use of your time
Read On the Shortness of Life as an inquiry into commitments, leisure and the meaning of being occupied.
On the Shortness of LifePause before wanting punishment
Trace the movement from a first emotional shock to the deliberate endorsement of revenge.
On AngerRead friendship against social rank
Bring letters 3, 9 and 47 together to examine trust, independence and the limits of Seneca’s moral community.
Moral Letters to Lucilius