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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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On the parts of philosophy

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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.

Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.

16.

The natural side of philosophy is twofold: bodily and non-bodily.

Each is divided into its own grades of importance, so to speak.

The topic concerning bodies deals, first, with these two grades: the creative and the created; and the created things are the elements.

Now this very topic of the elements, as some writers hold, is integral; as others hold, it is divided into matter, the cause which moves all things, and the elements.