《道德书简》内容简介
《道德书简》被认为是塞涅卡的著作中最重要的一部。在这一百二十四封写给弟子路西利奥的信中，塞涅卡讨论了友谊、尊严、死亡、自由等词语的内涵，引用先贤哲人的格言，思索如何实践美德的问题。
对塞涅卡来说，幸福与获得物质财富无关，与社会地位、行使权力无关，幸福作为至善，仅在于道德之善。这是经受一切考验的俭朴，也是一种自我教育和精神修炼，唯如此，才能在世上为自己找到某种稳定，某种基于忠诚原则的恒久，永远与自己保持一致。
本书根据古本江基金会2007年葡萄牙文版全文翻译，由若泽•安东尼奥•瑟古拉多•坎坡斯作序。
作者简介
塞涅卡（LuciusAnnaeusSeneca，公元前4年—公元65年），古罗马哲学家、戏剧家、诗人和政治家，斯多葛派代表人物之一。塞涅卡曾是罗马皇帝卡利古拉统治下的朝廷顾问，在克劳狄乌斯即位时被流放，后被召回成为尼禄的家庭教师。塞涅卡作为尼禄皇帝的顾问，发挥了重要作用，但后来被逼自杀。他留下了许多哲学著作，如《论愤怒》《论幸福生活》或《论生命之短暂》，尤其是他的《道德书简》，全面展露了他的斯多葛派哲学观念。他创作的悲剧作品是拉丁悲剧的最佳典范之一，如《美狄亚》《俄狄浦斯》等作品，滋养了十七世纪法国古典戏剧。
A brief introduction to the contents of the Moral Book
The Moral Treatise is considered the most important of Seneca's works. In one hundred and twenty-four letters to his disciple Lucilio, Seneca discussed the meaning of words such as friendship, dignity, death, and freedom, quoted the sayings of the wise men, and pondered the question of how to practice virtue.
For Seneca, happiness has nothing to do with the acquisition of material wealth, social status, and the exercise of power, and happiness as the ultimate good, only lies in the moral good. It is a frugality that withstands all trials, and it is also a self-education and a spiritual discipline, which is the only way to find for oneself some stability in the world, some permanence based on the principle of loyalty, which is always one with oneself.
The book is based on a full translation of the 2007 Portuguese edition of the Kubenji Foundation, with a foreword by Jose Antonio Segurado Campos.
About the author
LuciusAnnaeusSeneca (4 BC - 65 AD) was an ancient Roman philosopher, dramatist, poet, politician, and Stoic figure. Seneca had been a court adviser under the Roman emperor Caligula, exiled at the time of Claudius' accession, and recalled to become Nero's tutor. Seneca played an important role as an adviser to Emperor Nero, but was later driven to suicide. He left behind many philosophical works, such as "On Anger", "On Happy Life" or "On the Brevity of Life", especially his "Moral Treatise", which fully reveals his Stoic philosophy. His tragic works are one of the best examples of Latin tragedy, such as Medea and Oedipus, which nourished the French classical drama of the 17th century.
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