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How to Have a Life

- An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
Af: Seneca Engelsk Hardback

How to Have a Life

- An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
Af: Seneca Engelsk Hardback
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A vibrant new translation of Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life,” a pointed reminder to make the most of our time

Who doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay “On the Shortness of Life”—a work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In How to Have a Life, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of Seneca’s brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction.

With devastating satiric wit, skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander our time and fail to realize how precious it is. We don’t allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or else we give it away ourselves in useless, idle pursuits. Seneca also describes how we can make better use of our brief days and years. In the process, he argues, we can make our lives longer, or even everlasting, because to live a real life is to attain a kind of immortality.

A counterweight to the time-sucking distractions of the modern world, How to Have a Life offers priceless wisdom about making our time—and our lives—count.

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A vibrant new translation of Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life,” a pointed reminder to make the most of our time

Who doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay “On the Shortness of Life”—a work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In How to Have a Life, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of Seneca’s brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction.

With devastating satiric wit, skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander our time and fail to realize how precious it is. We don’t allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or else we give it away ourselves in useless, idle pursuits. Seneca also describes how we can make better use of our brief days and years. In the process, he argues, we can make our lives longer, or even everlasting, because to live a real life is to attain a kind of immortality.

A counterweight to the time-sucking distractions of the modern world, How to Have a Life offers priceless wisdom about making our time—and our lives—count.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9780691219127
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0691219125
Kategori: Antikkens filosofi
Udg. Dato: 18 okt 2022
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 178mm
Højde: 123mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 18 okt 2022
Forfatter(e): Seneca
Forfatter(e) Seneca


Kategori Antikkens filosofi


ISBN-13 9780691219127


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 200


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 178mm


Højde 123mm


Udg. Dato 18 okt 2022


Oplagsdato 18 okt 2022


Forlag Princeton University Press

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