Seneca, Moral Essays, Volume I: De Providentia. De.
Essays 1: Of Providence Of a Happy Life is an essay written by Seneca around the year 58 AD. On the Shortness of Life was written by Seneca around the year 49AD. Of a Happy Life is an essay written by Seneca around the year 58 AD.
The first book in the essays of Seneca deals with good and evil. The dialogue is opened by Lucilius complaining with his friend Seneca that adversities and misfortunes can happen to good men too. How can this fit with the goodness connected with the design of providence? Seneca answers according to the Stoic point of view.
With similar poignancy, Seneca’s essay On Providence raises the universal question of why bad things happen to good people; as a Stoic, Seneca suggests that negative events test both a good.
From Seneca, we have learned: be mindful, live now, and keep good company. What wonderful advice from a Stoic sage. Here’s a good, brief video about Stoicism, although I disagree with its interpretation of the Stoics’ view of hope. The Stoics weren’t pessimists, they were realists. (Also there is an audiobook of On the Shortness of Life.).
In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy life, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, and gift-giving.
Seneca and authors of the Bible have debated and written about these questions since ancient times. Perhaps because hardships affect every person, many people continue to debate the same topics today. Seneca writes extensively about the topic of suffering in his essay “On Providence,” which is contained in The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca.
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