Seneca The Literary Philosopher Margaret Graver by Margaret Graver 9781107164048, 1107164044 instant download after payment.

Seneca stands apart from other philosophers of Greece and Rome not only for his interest in practical ethics but also for the beauty and liveliness of his writing. These twelve interrelated studies give detailed treatment to Seneca’s philosophy and to his ambitions as a philosophical author. Part I concerns his position on the philosophical life and his Stoic-inspired analyses of action, emotion, voluntariness, and acts of kindness; Part II, his relation to Epicurean and Peripatetic thought; Part III, his views on the nature and management of anger, grief, and joy. Recalling Socrates’s critique of philosophical writing in Plato’s Phaedrus, Part IV treats Seneca’s handling of the written word for the purposes of ethical therapy, as well as his use of humor, his ideas on prose style, and his claims for reading and writing as mechanisms of self-creation. Clear explanations and careful translations make the volume accessible to a wide range of readers.