by Seneque · Rivages · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743612313
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«Le temps à soi suivi de La constance du sage» is Seneca's philosophical essay, published by Rivages in paperback (144 pages, in French).
The main treatise addresses the notion of «otium», contemplative leisure, and defends withdrawal from political life to devote oneself to the contemplation of nature. Seneca argues that contemplating is also a form of acting and that participating in public affairs is not an absolute obligation; the observation of the cosmos elevates the human being.
Volume bringing together two treatises by Seneca, «De otio» and «De constantia sapientis», in a translation by Pierre Maréchaux. Number 457 in the Rivages poche / Petite Bibliothèque collection.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
