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"To give and receive 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...

Who doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the...

Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a...

In On the Shortness of Life, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) touches on a surprising topic: the feeling of loss of time. We have the false perception that life is short because it is determined by our way of living, full of vices...

Seneca is one of the highest representatives of Stoicism. In fact, his work constitutes the main written source of Stoic philosophy that has survived to the present day, encompassing plays, philosophical dialogues, treatises on natural philosophy, consolations, and letters. In a society in which...

How can we stay true to ourselves and maintain peace of mind in a world in which we are constantly bombarded by images of false happiness based on immediacy and superficiality? How can we bear with fortitude the excesses to which, in an increasingly...