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Book Reading Seneca

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brad Inwood
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-06-16
  • ISBN : 0199250898
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Reading Seneca written by Brad Inwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. In each of these essays Seneca is considered as a philosopher, but with as much account as possible taken of his life, his education, his intellectual and literary background, his career, and his self-presentation as an author. Seneca emerges as a discerning and well-read Stoic, with a strong inclination to think for himself in the context of an intellectual climate teeming with influences from other schools. Seneca's intellectual engagement with Platonism, Aristotelianism, and even with Epicureanism involved a wide range of substantial philosophical interests and concerns. His philosophy was indeed shaped by the fact that he was a Roman, but he was a true philosopher shaped by his culture rather than a Roman writer trying his hand at philosophical themes. The highly rhetorical character of his writing must be accounted for when reading his works, and when one does so the underlying philosophical themes stand out more clearly. While it is hard to generalize about an overall intellectual agenda or systematic philosophical method, key themes and strategies are evident. Inwood shows how Seneca's philosophical ingenium worked itself out in a fundamentally particularistic way as he pursued those aspects of Stoicism that engaged him most forcefully over his career.

Book Seneca on Society

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriam T. Griffin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-14
  • ISBN : 0199245487
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Seneca on Society written by Miriam T. Griffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume which explores in detail Seneca's De Beneficiis. Divided into three sections, it looks at the historical and philosophical context of the work, its relation to Seneca's other texts, and concludes with a detailed synopsis of each book, accompanied by notes in commentary form.

Book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Seneca Law

Download or read book The Seneca Law written by Grace Ellis Taft and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seneca  Epistulae Morales Book 2

Download or read book Seneca Epistulae Morales Book 2 written by Janja Soldo and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first modern commentary on the second book of Seneca's Epistulae Morales. It contains a substantial introduction and a text and translation of the nine letters that constitute the second book of the Epistulae Morales.

Book Seneca s Morals

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  • Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca (le Jeune.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1807
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Seneca s Morals written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (le Jeune.) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Law

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  • Author : J. C. Schwarz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1104 pages

Download or read book Who s who in Law written by J. C. Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seneca s Phoenissae

Download or read book Seneca s Phoenissae written by M. Frank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first commentary to be written in English on Seneca's Phoenissae, an intriguing work on account of its unusual structure and state of incompletion. The substantial introduction deals, inter alia, with the question of the unity and purpose of the work; the absence of an ending and of choral lyrics; the philosophical, rhetorical, and political content; Seneca's treatment of the Theban legend. The commentary is primarily a literary analysis of the text, but textual, linguistic, metrical, and grammatical difficulties are also elucidated. With the resurgence of interest in Senecan drama in the last two decadese, this book is a valuable addition to English commentaries that appeared on most of the plays.

Book  Hearings

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  • Author : United States. 61st Congress, 1909-1911. House. [from old catalog]
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. 61st Congress, 1909-1911. House. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seneca s Morals

Download or read book Seneca s Morals written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Index to the Laws of the State of New York

Download or read book General Index to the Laws of the State of New York written by New York (State). and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. 60th Congress. 1st session, 1907-1908. House. [from old catalog]
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 748 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. 60th Congress. 1st session, 1907-1908. House. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road to Seneca Falls

Download or read book The Road to Seneca Falls written by Judith Wellman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. The convention succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement, radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official "Declaration of Sentiments," Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform history with individual and collective biographical elements. The Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it means to be an American trying to implement the belief that "all men and women are created equal," both then and now. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.

Book Seneca s Morals

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  • Author : Sir Roger Lestrange, Knt.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1855
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book Seneca s Morals written by Sir Roger Lestrange, Knt. and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seneca  Moral and Political Essays

Download or read book Seneca Moral and Political Essays written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker intimately involved in the governance of the Roman empire in the mid first century of the Christian era. A general introduction describes Seneca's life and career and explains the fundamental ideas underlying the Stoic moral, social and political philosophy that informs the essays. Individual introductions, footnotes and biographical notes place the essays in their historical and philosophical contexts, and further assistance to students is provided by section headings in the translations which organize the principal transitions in the argument and the more unfamiliar aspects of Seneca's writing.

Book The Stoic Art of Living

Download or read book The Stoic Art of Living written by Tom Morris and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Morris's exuberant seminars and presentations to business leaders have taken the commanding heights of corporate America by storm and his books on philosophy for businesspeople have sold millions. Dr. Morris shows how the ideas of Stoic Philosophy - which emphasizes goals like gaining command of one's passions and achieving indifference to pain and distress - are completely up-to-date in their relevance to the practical issues people confront in the 21st century. Divided into three sections Dr. Morris sympathetically relates the life and intellectual achievements of the three leading Stoics: the slave Epictetus, the lawyer Seneca, and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. From the bottom of society, to the upwardly mobile middle, and all the way to the top, these thinkers saw life deeply.

Book Reading Seneca

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brad Inwood
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2005-06-16
  • ISBN : 0191530603
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Reading Seneca written by Brad Inwood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. In each of these essays Seneca is considered as a philosopher, but with as much account as possible taken of his life, his education, his intellectual and literary background, his career, and his self-presentation as an author. Seneca emerges as a discerning and well-read Stoic, with a strong inclination to think for himself in the context of an intellectual climate teeming with influences from other schools. Seneca's intellectual engagement with Platonism, Aristotelianism, and even with Epicureanism involved a wide range of substantial philosophical interests and concerns. His philosophy was indeed shaped by the fact that he was a Roman, but he was a true philosopher shaped by his culture rather than a Roman writer trying his hand at philosophical themes. The highly rhetorical character of his writing must be accounted for when reading his works, and when one does so the underlying philosophical themes stand out more clearly. While it is hard to generalize about an overall intellectual agenda or systematic philosophical method, key themes and strategies are evident. Inwood shows how Seneca's philosophical ingenium worked itself out in a fundamentally particularistic way as he pursued those aspects of Stoicism that engaged him most forcefully over his career.