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Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Negative Emotions in Seneca

The Stoics are advising us that mourning is a bad thing. The maturation mourning, the mourning you do as you grow up on the psychoanalytic view, sort of prepares you to have a different comportment towards the world. So I think there's some hidden commonalities between stoicism and other ways of looking at things. And it's part of being full human, as well as same things with pleasure or with other states of emotion.

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