Seneca on the Highest Good (Summum bonum), virtue, & reason

Where we’ve arrived in the Seneca and spiritual direction series

We’ve finally arrived at Part II of Ilsetraut Hadot’s great work, Sénèque, on the great Roman Stoic Seneca (translation in process, #philoponia).

Part I of the book is about contextualizing Seneca, as we’ve seen, within Hellenistic and Roman thought, and within Stoicism. Hadot has then refuted three “myths”: that Roman Stoics like Seneca had no interest in theory, that he was a loose eclectic, and…