About mercy. Seneca

Seneca is an outstanding philosopher-style and statesman of the Rome of the Empire. His “moral letters to Lucilia”, a kind of leadership of a morally correct life, are widely known. The treatises collected in this publication are important for understanding the philosophy of Seneca, they directly express the views of the thinker on the most important aspects of human life. Written by a brilliant syllable, these texts are inseparable from the circumstances of the author’s life, detailed in the introductory article and notes.

treatises “On mercy”, “Consolation for Helvia”, “On leisure” are printed in Russian for the first time.