Seneca · Philosophy
Seneca’s answer to the question all ancient philosophy asks - what is the happy life? - and his Stoic insistence that it is found in virtue, not in pleasure.
You learned Seneca’s claim that happiness is found in virtue, with pleasure as at most a byproduct. Epicurus made pleasure itself the goal - though a far subtler pleasure than the word suggests. State how Epicurus’s answer differs from Seneca’s.
Leads to Epicurus.
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