was the son of Marcus Annaeus Seneca the rhetorician, born in Córdoba Year 4 d. C. Soon he went to Rome with his family and there ended his rhetorical training, jurist and philosopher. Was devoted to advocacy, especially for its skillful speaker. He travels around the world and was named prefect of the Emperor Claudius. Suffered exile in Corsica for eight years for reasons not yet sufficiently clear and was appointed tutor to Nero. Accused before the emperor envious of his high office and his fabulous fortune, Seneca left the courtroom, but again accused of involvement in a conspiracy against the emperor, was sentenced to death. He committed suicide by slashing his wrists and drinking the hemlock stoically in accordance with their doctrine. Seneca is the most important representative of the stoa or Stoic philosophy in his last year with her fundamentally ethical concerns, to the extent that they have tried to establish a contact between him and early Christianity, originating from a correspondence with the Apostle Paul. It is a practical philosopher rather than a theoretical or systematic. It departs in many parts of stoicism, accepting elements from the cynicism and Epicureanism, which resulting in eclectic moralist concerned about philosophy as it means teaching and comfort for life. This is, in short, the "Senecan". Seneca
separates the study of nature: natural philosophy, the study of man, ethics, religion-tinged. Ethics serve to seek comfort from the evils of this resignation to suffering and death.
Seneca rejects Greek and Roman mythology, deeming it unworthy of the divine. The Universe is an organic whole and must be dominated by a single being, God, Jupiter. The deities are but aspects and characters of this supreme being. The conscience must act according to what each moment demands of us the order of the universe. That is the Destination. The rest is attributable to the passion or the fortune, at random.
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