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On Anger: De Ira Kindle Edition

by Seneca (Author), Aubrey Stewart (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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De Ira or “On Anger” is an essay on anger by Seneca the Younger. The work offers advice on controlling anger and to make it subject to reason. This essay contains an active table of contents for easy maneuverability throughout the eBook.

It is not clear to scholars who wrote the first work on the subject of passions or emotions (the terms are thought interchangeable), but while Xenocrates (396/5–314/3 BCE) and Aristotle (384–322 BCE) were students at Plato's Academy, a discussion on emotions took place which provided likely the impetus for all later work on the subject. The Stoic Posidonius of Apamea (c.135 - 51 BCE) is considered the main source for Seneca, also the work of Theophrastus, Antipater of Tarsus, Philodemus of Gadara, Sotion of Alexandria, Xenocrates (active sometime after 346 BCE) and Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE ). Other influences may have included works On Passions by the Stoic philosophers Zeno of Citium, Chrysippus, Aristo of Chios, Herillus, Hecato of Rhodes, and the Peripatetic philosopher Andronicus of Rhodes (c. 1st century B.C.).

Within the context of Stoicism, which seeks to aid and guide the person in a development out of a life of slavery to behaviors and ways of the vices, to freedom within a life characterized by virtue, de Ira posits this as achievable by the development of an understanding of how to control the passions, anger being classified as a passion, and to make these subject to reason.

Seneca's thoughts of the relationship of the passions to reason, are that the passions arise in a rational mind as a result of a misperceiving or misunderstanding of reality.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073SFY813
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lazy Raven Publishing; 1st edition (July 6, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1289 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 172 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1521777268
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC – AD 65), also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Hispano-Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist.

Fabulous wealth, literary fame, exile, an amazing come back to the height of political power and a tragic ending the life of Seneca is one of the great untold stories of Ancient Rome.

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Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars P.A.U.S.E
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2022
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One of seneca's solutions is to pause when agitated. I couldn't help but think of the modern acronym for dealing with anger or impulsive behavior. P.A.U.S.E. = Perhaps an unexplored solution exists.
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Robert Kimble
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2017
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Good to read along with chapter 6 of The Way of the Bodhisattva.
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Jamie Stafford
2.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, poor publishing/editing.
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2018
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In terms of content this is a great book, worth anyone's time to read. But this is a poor version. There are weird spelling, punctuation, and formatting errors throughout. It's bad enough that I'm giving two stars instead of the five the work deserves.
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Katherine Rowlyk
1.0 out of 5 stars No problems at all with this seller. But the ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017
No problems at all with this seller. But the layout of this book is awful! Font is hard to read, lots of typos, etc. Buy a different version.
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Maria Russo
5.0 out of 5 stars i mean it’s Seneca
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022
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I mean it’s Seneca. What’s not to like.
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Nathaniel LeBlanc
1.0 out of 5 stars This version of De Ira made me enraged.
Reviewed in Canada on January 17, 2024
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Seneca's De Ira is a seminal and thought-provoking work that continues to be a valuable read two thousand years after it was composed.

However, this edition - despite a simple copy-paste of previous translations in the public sphere - is unpleasant and miserable to read because of a baffling font choice and poor formatting.

Sans serif is a good choice for screen-readers, but for paper books, it causes eye strain. I found that the writing was arranged in dense blocks with careless spacing and formatting.

Overall, it created an unpleasant reading experience that made an invaluable piece of writing feel cheap and churned out. Would it increase the price if Amazon used Georgia instead of whatever eye-straining screen-reader font they chose here? Probably not!

For works like this that are in the public sphere, I understand that these are usually decorative books not actually meant to be read. You put them on your shelf to let people know how smart you are and how cultured you are.

First, I will say that if this is not alongside Hercules Furens, Seneca's masterpiece drama on the same topic of anger, you will only appear smart to fools.

Second, if any curious individual were to pick this up and leaf through it, they would not be impressed by your staggering intellect, but confused as to how you could possibly work through a hastily slapped together edition like this that was clearly made without a thought given to reader comfort.

Can't recommend. I know this is the cheapest version online, but I've returned it and I'll be picking up a slightly pricier one in hopes that it bears some minor semblance of legibility.

Never thought this book would make ME angry!
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