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Seneca the Younger

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Seneca and the Stoics Think, Actually, You Are Perfectly Right to Engage in Public Life

Stosesa was a er, was n n more new ants than epicurianism. Epicuranism is actually, try to keep away from private life unless it's absolutely desperately necessary. But by and large, do not engage in public life. Seneca and the stoics think, actually, you are perfectly right to engage in publiclife. It is part of your ty to the broader community of which you're part. Of course, according to virtuous principles, but you should do it. And that's why steusem is so incredibly powerful and successful in a roman context. Mary alessandro is doing brilliantly in letting seneca off the hooka ha, and doing

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