E13: Seneca

READING

“On the Shortness of Life,” excerpts

CHAPTERS

00:02:14     Introduction
00:08:35     Stoic Ontology
00:13:32     Stoic Epistemology
00:18:04     Stoic Ethics
00:21:31     The Problem
00:24:22     Cause 1: Engrossment
00:35:53     Cause 2: Relationship to Time
00:44:44     Cause 3: Anxiety
00:48:40     Cause 4: Expectancy
00:51:12     Cause 5: Ambition
00:53:51     The Solution
01:03:32     Conclusion

Note: chapters are listed here for reference. You can skip directly to a chapter while listening to the episode using the links in the player.

Correction: The passage I read at 34:45 is from Chapter 17, not Chapter 10.