{"product_id":"philosophy-and-community-in-senecas-prose-hardcover","title":"Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarey Seal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Roman philosopher Seneca addressed himself to the question of how we ought to live in letters and treatises that have engaged the attention of readers from his own day to the present. A committed, if critical and eccentric, adherent of Stoicism, he gives us a set of reflections on the good life that are rich both in philosophical subtlety and in vivid engagement with day-to-day life in ancient Rome. \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a new understanding of the relationship between these two facets of Seneca's achievement, examining how he balances the Socratic imperative to subject one's life to rational scrutiny, on the one hand, with the claims of Roman moral tradition on the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarey Seal argues that we should think of Seneca neither as a spokesman for Stoicism who seizes opportunistically upon the data of Roman social life to make his case, nor as an expositor of the inherited values of the Roman elite in the language of Stoic philosophy. Rather, Seneca should be understood as someone intensely interested in the question of philosophy's social entanglements and presuppositions. Seneca's use of Roman politics and of the institution of slavery in elaborating his ideal of a life guided by reason is carefully examined in the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarey Seal\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47479146119346,"sku":"9780190493219","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/db6b66f8a66e23c5d7360d994be7faf8.webp?v=1779232456","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/philosophy-and-community-in-senecas-prose-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}