Death, Dying, and Seneca with James Romm
Practical Stoicism
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Seneca: Is It the Best Medicine?
Seneca says reading philosophy is a kind of cheating of death. It's a kind of immortality because your mind ranges through the ages back to Socrates and you inhabit all of time, he writes. So then I guess we could say if dying well isn't just being prepared for death, it's also having utility afterwards. We could say that Seneca, in fact, did, at least partially, died pretty well.
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