‘Letters to Lucilius’ and deatha self-help book written by Seneca

  1. Pujante, David 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

Book:
Discourses on the edges of life
  1. Salvador, Vicente (coord.)
  2. Kotátková, Adéla (coord.)
  3. Clemente, Ignasi (coord.)

Publisher: John Benjamins

ISBN: 978-90-272-0537-7

Year of publication: 2020

Pages: 113-124

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

"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.

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