Oct 4, 2022
8 min read
On the meaning of the Latin “Securitas” in Seneca
Hadot’s Sénèque: Direction spirituelle et pratique de la philosophie now turns to sections on two key words which Seneca uses to describe the goal or objective of philosophy: securitas and tranquilitate animi. Answering to the question “what is the happy life [quid est beata vita]?”, securitas et perpetua tranquillitas constitutes one of the definitions of happiness (Letters to Lucilius 92, 3).
