‘Letters to Lucilius’ and death: a self-help book written by Seneca

• Pujante, David ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Valladolid

     Universidad de Valladolid

     Valladolid, España

     
• Localización: Discourses on the edges of life / coord. por Vicent Salvador i Liern, Adéla Kotatkova, Ignasi Clemente, 2020, ISBN 978-90-272-0537-7, págs. 113-124
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "Moral Letters to Lucilius" is a highly modern work in terms of both its generic complexity and its approach, which resembles a self-help treatise written in the twenty-first century. Seneca bases his letters on stoic approaches that may be very useful to today’s society, which lives facing outwards, frightened and stressed. The objective is to attain a moral freedom and an inner independence that removes the fear of death, among other benefits.