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Cover: 9780691181950 | How to Keep Your Cool | An Ancient Guide to Anger Management | Seneca

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Beschreibung

In his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from "On Anger," presented with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, offers readers a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. It vividly illustrates why the emotion is so dangerous and why controlling it would bring vast benefits to individuals and society. Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula's horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world's evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.

Über den Autor

James Romm is the editor and translator of Seneca's How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Princeton) and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero (Knopf). He has written for the New York Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New York.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	240
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780691181950
ISBN-10:	0691181950
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Seneca
Orchester:	Romm, James seection & introduction
Übersetzung:	Romm, James S.
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Maße:	177 x 118 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Seneca
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.02.2019
Gewicht:	0,272 kg

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