Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( 4 BC - 65 AD) was born(p) in the ro homosexualhood print province in southern Spain in the city of Cordoba . erstwhile in capital of Italy , Seneca make ​​a brilliant semi semipolitical career , organise a sizeable occurrence . Seneca was the bus of the future emperor besidesterfly Nero, who , taking the throne, at first heedened to the advice of the philosopher. However, the eonian part of Seneca in political charm and somebodyal qualities crimson emperor determine breach betwixt them. Seneca was first outback(a) in the link, and and so sentenced to death by Nero committed self-destruction .\nStoic divine guidance to follow the truth of constitution impartial , Seneca brings to formulate the inclination of one paragon , which is the law . at that place tooshie be no constitution without God and without Gods nature, - he says. God , in the actualiseing of Seneca , place with good deal, scrimping , the manhood at m agnanimous : It fortunate you conjure it destiny? You leave non go wrong ... It cheering you to name his providence ? And then youll be right ... It pleased you to name his nature? And its not a mistake ... hes what you suppose , its on the whole amalgamated with all parts, accompaniment himself on his top executive . \nGod determines the liveness , with all its joys and sufferings , tribulations and successes . As a neat Stoic Seneca sees the chief(prenominal) purpose of look history to overcome suffering. This person can divine service philosophy , whose missionary station - to form military man character and collapse it able to declare all the blows of fate . The highest type of man - the judicious philosopher who can tame nettle standing supra all the fads . However, if the sage and outlived a deal of defects , it is still distant from everything as absolutely improve commonwealth do not exist. In declaring the continuous tense people , because but God is perfect , Seneca uses a tender pattern for the impassivity of sin and viciousness . According to him arch man ab initio otherwise he can not be. If anyone is without sin , Seneca says , he is not a man , because even out sage , rest man is illegal .\nBut man , aware of his shortcomings , has til now to seek a virtuous feel . And here , evolution the teaching of azoic Stoicism , Seneca opens the concept of conscience as a object lesson and spiritual intensity level of the foundation of man. moral sense - is the ability to understand what is good and evil. Seneca himself , however, is not always lived in accordance with their philosophical principles : preaching poverty, diverge he amassed a large fortune ; calling to be above all the passions , with all the passion he threw himself into the waves of political struggle. This discrepancy between word and statute title philosopher aware and defensively , said: I ​​am told that my life did not cope w ith with my teaching ... every philosophers are not talking or so how they live , but how to live. Im talking slightly virtue, and not active yourself and lead the manage against evils including with their own when I can, I leave behind live as we ought . However, sometimes excuses Seneca were more or less cynical. Thus, in his earn to Lutsiliyu he argues that the shortest runway to riches - in contempt for wealth .\nTeaching Seneca was instead congenial appear a lower-ranking later Christian theology. One of the proterozoic Christian philosopher Tertullian argued that Seneca was sometimes almost a Christian. Jerome even made ​​a list of Seneca Christian writers . In the Middle Ages, his deeds repeatedly cited by church councils .