Seneca's On Happiness versus La Mettrie's Anti-Seneca

Hiram · February 10, 2020 at 1:11 PM

There are two more lines in the poem, then it ends.

Cassius · February 10, 2020 at 1:25 PM

Thanks Hiram. Looks like different than what I have so I am going to have to look further.

Hiram · February 10, 2020 at 1:33 PM

Maybe Charles can help explain the discrepancy? I noticed that your book says "Anti Seneca, or On the Sovereign Good", but most translations say "Sur le Bonheur", or "On Happiness", which is the translation of the name of a work by Seneca that he was reacting to ("de vita beata"?).

Cassius · February 10, 2020 at 1:40 PM

Yes I will get with Charles. I take it he has been busy lately as we've missed him for the last week or so.

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Seneca's On Happiness versus La Mettrie's Anti-Seneca

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