Libros de Séneca (3 libros)

To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do―but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, "On Benefits" (De Beneficiis). James Romm's splendid new translation of essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Seneca's argument that generosity and gratitude are among the most important of all virtues. For Seneca, the impulse to give to others lies at the very foundation of society; without it, we are helpless creatures, worse than wild beasts. ...

Séneca escribe “Cuestiones naturales” durante el periodo de retiro de la vida política. Séneca intenta desvelar las causas de diversos fenómenos naturales que la ciencia antigua clasificaba

Se trata de unos textos filosóficos en los que predominan los temas morales y que, a pesar de su título, no presentan una forma dialogada. En ellos Séneca muestra con espíritu realista su doctrina sobre las pasiones, el amor a uno mismo y a los demás, y la autosuficiencia espiritual