How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

by Seneca

Book Overview

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca

In his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691181950
• ISBN13: 9780691181950
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.8" x 6.9"