Seneca, Letter 30 - Attitudes Towards Death - Sadler's Lectures

03/03/2025 16 min
Seneca, Letter 30 - Attitudes Towards Death - Sadler's Lectures

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 30, in which Seneca uses the example of an aged friend Bassus who is approaching his own death in a good manner, as an opportunity to set out some ideas about how we can regard and prepare for our own inevitable death in a Stoic manner.

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