LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
From within power, exile, ambition, and loss, he asks how we can reclaim finite time and emotional agency for a life directed by our own values.
C. 4 BCE–65 CEStoicismRome
Core ideas
TIMEEMOTIONMORTALITYAGENCYPRACTICE
Works & sources
Moral Letters to Lucilius · On the Shortness of Life · On Tranquility of Mind
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, a first reading
Seneca reflected on time, emotion, and mortality amid the pressures of Roman politics.
Time and life: what does it mean?
On the Shortness of Life is more than advice on managing a schedule. It asks how we surrender our lives to demands and desires while postponing the question of how to live.