When we take being liberated from enslavement by our emotions and desires as the first freedom Stoicism aims for, in letter 65 Seneca shows us how identifying with the Cosmos is a valuable pathway to …
Consistency & Seneca’s art of living
One characteristic prized by Seneca’s philosophical art of living is consistency in your values, actions and desires. He thought you could achieve that by learning to form good desires and sound …
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Seneca on suicide
Well before you get to Letter 77 in Seneca’s masterpiece, you need to develop an understanding about his views on suicide. The short version is: he notes it as an option that illuminates the freedom …
Seneca’s freedoms
In coming weeks, Beautiful Rich Sage’s posts will look more closely at Seneca’s philosophy of freedom. For Seneca and the Stoics, freedom was an important element of the highest good. For us too, …
How to learn Stoic physics
To be competent in an art of living that draws on Stoicism requires learning about physics, which is to say the nature of the world. To live in accord with nature you need to have an understanding of …
Seneca & Stoic logic
Seneca is a stoic, writing in the stoic tradition. Yet he always steps outside that tradition when he reaches a divergent conclusion on something important. The most obvious example of this, is his …