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On Anger: De Ira Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 6, 2017
- File size1289 KB
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #326,657 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #108 in Mood Disorders (Kindle Store)
- #155 in Greek & Roman Philosophy (Kindle Store)
- #186 in Anger Management Self Help
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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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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!