The second son of a wealthy family, Seneca was educated in the philosophy of the Sextii. This was heavily influenced by stoicism, whose followers believed that virtue is based on knowledge and ...

Some Christians think Seneca’s ideas are proto-Christian, but could they be proto-Morrissey, too? "In Our Time" reviving my love of the classical period &philosophy. Fascinated by Stoic ...

where I found a vintage paperback from the 1960s that included a few more of Stoicism’s greatest hits by Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Now, we’re flooded with Stoic books; it’s arguably ...

Stoicism, a school of thought born in ancient ... Founded by figures like Zeno of Citium and later popularized by Roman thinkers such as Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, the philosophy ...