How to Give (eBook)

An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving

Seneca (Autor)

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2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21136-7 (ISBN)

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Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, "e;On Benefits"e; (De Beneficiis). James Romm's splendid new translation of essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Seneca's argument that generosity and gratitude are among the most important of all virtues.For Seneca, the impulse to give to others lies at the very foundation of society; without it, we are helpless creatures, worse than wild beasts. But generosity did not arise randomly or by chance. Seneca sees it as part of our desire to emulate the gods, whose creation of the earth and heavens stands as the greatest gift of all. Seneca's soaring prose captures his wonder at that gift, and expresses a profound sense of gratitude that will inspire today's readers.Complete with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Give is a timeless guide to the profound significance of true generosity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Übersetzer: James S. Romm
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Accounts Payable • Acta Diurna • advice on gift giving • All Fools • ALL THINGS • Anachronism • Analogy • Anecdote • Anthology • awareness • Bad debt • Bankruptcy • behalf • beneficia • Beneficium • Biography • boldness • Calculation • Career • chauvinism • Chrysippus • Civilization • classical Athens • Consideration • Contemporary translation • Creditor • De Beneficiis • debt • Debtor • deed • deity • Denarius • Disease • Drought • Embarrassment • ethics • Etiquette • Fabius Maximus • faithfulness • Favor • Feeling • Firmament • food security • Fruit tree • Generosity • Georgics • Gerund • gift giving • graciousness • Grammatical gender • gratia • Gratitude • greatness • Greco-Roman World • Hardness • hatred • hellenistic greece • historical figure • how to be gracious • how to be grateful • how to politely accept gifts • how to show gratitude • Imagery • impiety • importance of generosity • Incense • introduction to Seneca’s thought • Latin prose style • Latin writers • Laziness • Life on Land • Lightness • Mark Antony • modern translation • moneylender • Moral Authority • Moral evil • Narration • newspaper • new translation of Seneca • No Thanks (collection) • Obedience (human behavior) • open letter • OR Books • Payment • Phidias • philanthropy • Philosopher • piety • Precious metal • pronoun • Proscription • Prose • Publication • Religion • Reputation • rescuer • rhetoric • Robbery • Roman Philosophy • Ruler • rules of gift giving • Sake • salary • selection • self-esteem • Self Help • Selfishness • Seneca’s life and times • seneca the younger • Sexism • Shame • shyness • Soil • spouse • Stoicism • Superiority (short story) • Theft • The Other Hand • Thought • total loss • Train of Thought • Triumphal Procession • Uncertainty • Underpinning • understanding Seneca • usury • Wealth • wickedness • Writing • Writings
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21136-1 / 0691211361
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21136-7 / 9780691211367