Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
KORTE INHOUD
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith’s distinctive, award-winning covers. Whether on a well-curated shelf or in your back pocket, these timeless works of philosophical, political, and psychological thought are absolute must-haves for book collectors as well as design enthusiasts. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature," Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism, as expressed in the Letters, helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity, for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living, as wel...
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2014Uitgever: PenguinVertaler: Robin CampbellReeks: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks352 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0141395850ISBN-13: 9780141395852Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Gebonden hardcover (geen omslag), Engels, als nieuw; 2014; Penguin Publishing Group; XXXV, 308 pagina's; Titel: Letters from a Stoic; Ref: 234368 / U50V252
