Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Moral Essays: De providentia ; De constantia ; De ira ; De clementia
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Moral Essays, Volume I
Author: SenecaPublisher: Loeb Classical Library
ISBN: 9780674992368
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Moral Essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780434993109
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy life, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, and gift-giving. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) circa 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in 65. Wealthy, he preached indifference to wealth; evader of pain and death, he preached scorn of both; and there were other contrasts between practice and principle. We have Seneca's philosophical or moral essays (ten of them traditionally called Dialogues)-on providence, steadfastness, the happy life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving, forgiveness- and treatises on natural phenomena. Also extant are 124 epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in Loeb number 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost. His moral essays are collected in Volumes I-III of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume edition of Seneca.
Seneca: Moral essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 480
Book Description
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
Author: J. B. SchneewindPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199563012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.
Moral Essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674993433
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seneca Moral Essays (Volume I)
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354031878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Public Philosophy
Author: Michael J. SandelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744020
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
Wittgenstein and the Moral Life
Author: Cora DiamondPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262532867
Category : Ethics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Essays by leading scholars that take as their point of departure Cora Diamond's work on the unity of Wittgenstein's thought and her writings on moral philosophy.
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