Seneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
wrote the moral essay
De Vita Beata ("On the Happy Life") to his brother Gallio. In a few words Seneca the Younger explains that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of the 'reason', reason meant not only using logic, but also understanding the processes of nature.
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Seneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
wrote the moral essay
De Vita Beata ("On the Happy Life") to his brother Gallio. In a few words Seneca the Younger explains that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of the 'reason', reason meant not only using logic, but also understanding the processes of nature.
In Seneca the Younger's words, "rerum naturae adsentior; ab illa non deerrare et ad illius legem exemplumque formari sapientia est," which means "I assent to nature; it is common sense not to stray from it but to be molded according to its law and example."