Lucilius is complaining to his friend Seneca that adversities and misfortunes can happen to good men, too. How can this state issue from the design of divine providence? Seneca answers according to the Stoic point of view: Nothing actually bad can befall the good man because opposites cannot cohabit one soul. Seneca was an Hispano-Roman Stoic philosopher and tragedian. During the Renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model of dramatic art." Please register for this one-time live seminar event here. NOTE: Times given in PST.
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Earlier Event: December 12
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, Book Seven
Later Event: December 15
Monticello Live with Jefferson and Franklin