Seneca, a Roman philosopher, offered Stoic principles for navigating life's challenges. His teachings, emphasizing virtue and ...

Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill. In the field of mental ...

Seneca's musings on the tension between public and private life remain as approachable and fresh as they were two millennia ago. Wilson’s point of departure in her life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 ...

German director Robert Schwentke’s directorial career has swung in a few directions; he has made Hollywood actioners like Flightplan with Jodie Foster, the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife and a ...

Two thousand years ago, under the reign of Roman emperor Tiberius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was learning from his tutor how to live a good life. His tutor was an adherent of Stoicism, a philosophy that ...

"Aim for virtue, happiness will follow." German distributor Weltkino Filmverleih has revealed two official trailers for the film Seneca, the latest from director Robert Schwentke who has been working ...

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca explores the concept that life is not inherently short, but often wasted through luxury, ambition, and distraction. Seneca encourages readers to consider time as a ...

According to the historian Tacitus (d. 120 CE), Seneca modelled his death on that of Socrates, discussing philosophy with his friends and chiding them for their outbursts of emotion. He slit one vein, ...