Therapeutic Strategies and Intellectualism in On Anger by Seneca

Abstract

I try to show that a) the treatise On Anger by Seneca includes not one but two therapeutic strategies designed to avoid anger and that b) the second of these strategies –which has been neglected in the secondary literature– presents unsolvable problems when we contrast it with the Stoic theory of action, which is rooted in intellectualist premises.

Keywords

• L. A. Seneca
• Stoicism
• intellectualism
• passions