Seneca · Philosophy

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Seneca’s conviction that philosophy is not a subject to be studied but a practice to be lived - a daily training of the self toward freedom, through self-examination and the friendship of letters.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Seneca’s view that philosophy is a way of life, centred on relentless self-examination. Fifteen centuries later, Montaigne made the examined self the whole subject of his writing. State how Montaigne carried Seneca’s practice forward.

Leads to Montaigne.

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