person
Aristotle
also: Aristoteles
The founder of the Peripatetic school (384–322 BC); Seneca repeatedly disputes his view that anger, well used, can serve virtue as a weapon.
Reading notes
- On the Shortness of Life §1.2 Aristotle
The philosopher (384–322 BC); his complaint that nature gives long-lived animals many generations but man a nearer limit is the 'quarrel with nature' Seneca rebukes.
- On Anger §1.3 Aristotle
Founder of the Peripatetic school (384–322 BC); Seneca cites and then sets aside his definition of anger as the craving to repay pain.
- On Anger §3.17 Aristotle
The philosopher (384-322 BC), Alexander's tutor; 'from Aristotle's bosom' marks Alexander as a man of letters who still murdered in rage.
- On Leisure §8.2 Aristotle
The philosopher (384–322 BC), who withdrew from Athens late in life (saying he would not let the city 'sin twice against philosophy') to avoid Socrates' fate; paired here with Socrates as evidence of the state's hostility to virtue.
- On Tranquility of Mind §17.10 Aristotle
Aristotle (384--322 BC), to whom is ascribed the saying that no great genius has been without a touch of madness.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.6.6 Aristotle
Aristotle (384–322 BC), pupil of Plato and founder of the Peripatetic school.
- Natural Questions §1.1.2 Aristotle
The founder of the Peripatetic school (384–322 BC), whose Meteorologica is Seneca's chief foil and source throughout the Natural Questions.