Details:
- author: David Fideler
- full title: Breakfast with Seneca - A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
- narrator: Paul Heitsch
- genre: nonfiction, philosophy
- topics: #philosophy #seneca #stoicism
- publisher: Ascent Audio
- publish date: 14.12.2021
- timing: 7:17:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
If you read Seneca's writings, one of the most striking things you'll notice is how he seems to be precisely describing our present-day world, even though he was writing two thousand years ago.
The wealthy citizens of Rome had developed consumerism into a fine art, and reveled in physical luxury and hedonism. As in our own time, when we can go into a supermarket in the middle of winter and buy oranges and avocados grown halfway around the world, the Romans had developed international trade to such an extent that rare goods, foods, and luxury items flooded into Rome from distant lands.
My Thoughts:
This book is all that I expected and hoped it would be. And more. Breakfast with Seneca is a lightweight, easy-to-understand philosophy book for the general reader. But it’s not oversimplified.
The author tells us, through Seneca’s letters, about meaningful life. Among others, he deals with themes like friendship, time, anxiety, grief, and anger. Stoics are considered to be emotionless, the ones who repress their emotions. But that’s not true. They just know how to prevent extreme emotions, like anger.
I’m sure I will return to this audiobook multiple times. Like the author reads Seneca’s letters every day at breakfast, you could read or listen to sections of this book regularly.
I would recommend this audiobook to students for an introduction to Stoicism. And to all who are interested in Stoic philosophy or want to know how to live fully. You can read this also as a self-help book, but not a typical one.
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