Seneca, Letter 59 - Pleasure, Joy, And Wisdom - Sadler's Lectures

05/03/2025 18 min
Seneca, Letter 59 - Pleasure, Joy, And Wisdom - Sadler's Lectures

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Episode Synopsis

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's Letters, this one looking at Letter 59, in which Seneca distinguishes between the senses that ordinary people and Stoics give to the terms pleasure (voluptas) and joy (gaudium), and discusses why it is that most people go wrong in the views they have about what will produce genuine joy for them, by contrast to the Stoic sage, who is able to enjoy lasting joy.

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