{"id":785,"date":"2021-11-27T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=785"},"modified":"2021-11-27T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:39:49","slug":"seneca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/seneca\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been read a couple of books about or related to Stoicism in the last couple of years and one the next has been “Letters from a Stoic<\/a>” of Seneca<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a sort book but it is interesting. You have an introduction about Seneca’s life before going through the letters<\/a>. I liked as it gives some background about the person. As well, I didnt remember\/know he was Nero<\/a>‘s teacher and advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems the letter were written during his exile and they cover a lot of aspects of his life and Stoic philosophy. It covers topics like poverty and richness from a Stoic point of view, keeping in mind that he was a rich man can be a bit surprising but it takes his wealth the Stoic way, if it goes, he will be fine. As well, touches a very interesting subject like slavery, that was the base of all Rome economy. He states everybody is a slave of something. The “free” romans were slave of vices: power, money, etc. And clearly says you need to treat a slave like you want to be treated, so it looks like it reduces the slavery to a concept of labor contract, and I think there is touch of “Christianity” in some comments. He was contemporary of Jesus. Maybe a coincidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He writes about many subjects like how you need to speak slowly, only mourn\/cry the minimum time (very stoic), suicide vs illness (stoic), not taking hot baths, Scipio of Africa<\/a>, olive trees, Socrates, vegetarianism, excess of alcohol, Socrates, Pythagoras<\/a>, dont have a night life, negative of having bad companies, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I liked it, it wasn’t a hardcore book about philosophy so you read it like the memories of an interesting person in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been read a couple of books about or related to Stoicism in the last couple of years and one the next has been “Letters from a Stoic” of Seneca. It is a sort book but it is interesting. You have an introduction about Seneca’s life before going through the letters. I liked as … Continue reading “Seneca”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}