Letters from a Stoic : Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

基本信息

By (author) Seneca , Introduction by Robin Campbell

Edited by:Robin Campbell

Series:Penguin Pocket Hardbacks

Format:Hardback 352 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780141395852

Published: 6 Nov 2014

Classifications:Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:320g

Dimensions:176 x 112 x 31 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Language:English

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书籍简介

《道德书简》选自《莫拉莱斯与Lucilium书信》，是一套“伪装的散文”，作者是罗马文学白银时代颇具洞察力的哲学家之一。这本企鹅经典版是由拉丁文翻译的，由罗宾·坎贝尔介绍。斯多葛派认为，沉着冷静是“与自然和谐相处”的关键，主张克制动物本能，切断情感联系。

他们的信仰是在公元前四世纪由齐诺的雅典追随者所创立的，但是斯多葛学派却在塞内加找到了他们雄辩的支持者。正如信中所表达的那样，斯多葛主义帮助异教徒罗马向基督教过渡，因为它坚持正直的伦理理想，推崇高尚的生活方式，同时也表达了对罗马竞技场中奴隶的残酷待遇和非人道屠杀的厌恶。塞内加对一个看似毫无同情心的信条的主要贡献，是把它转变成一个强有力的、感人的、鼓舞人心的个人思想尊严的宣言。

罗宾·坎贝尔清晰的翻译抓住了塞内加的幽默和严谨的警句风格。在他的介绍中，他讨论了塞内加的哲学和他作为暴君尼禄的顾问的动荡生涯之间的紧张关系。卢修斯·安内乌斯·塞内加(公元前4年-公元65年)出生在西班牙，但按照罗马共和国的传统价值观长大。

公元48年，他成为后来的皇帝尼禄的家庭教师，并在尼禄掌权后成为他的主要民事顾问。他后来在公元65年被尼禄下令处死，但塞内加预见到了皇帝的命令而自杀了。

Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Robin Campbell. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties.

These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism, as expressed in the Letters, helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity, for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living, as well as expressing disgust for the harsh treatment of slaves and the inhumane slaughters witnessed in the Roman arenas. Seneca's major contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into a powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.

Robin Campbell's lucid translation captures Seneca's humour and tautly aphoristic style. In his introduction, he discusses the tensions between Seneca's philosophy and his turbulent career as adviser to the tyrannical emperor Nero. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4BC - AD65) was born in Spain but was raised according to the traditional values of the republic of Rome.

In AD48 he became tutor to the future emperor Nero and became his principal civil advisor when he took power. His death was eventually ordered by Nero in AD65, but Seneca anticipated the emperor's decree and committed suicide. 

作者简介

卢修斯·安内乌斯·塞内加(公元前4年-公元65年)，也被称为小塞内加，是罗马哲学家、政治家和悲剧家，后来成为尼禄皇帝的导师和信任的顾问。塞内加以其道德哲学和斯多葛主义原则的著作而闻名于世。

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC – AD 65), also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman philosopher, statesman and tragedian, who later acted as tutor and trusted advisor to Emperor Nero. Seneca is best known today for his writings of moral philosophy and Stoic principles.