On the corporeality of virtue
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
4.
Now the good is active: for it is beneficial; and what is active is corporeal.
The good stimulates the mind and, in a way, moulds and embraces that which is essential to the body.
The goods of the body are bodily; so therefore must be the goods of the soul.
For the soul, too, is corporeal.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the corporeality of virtue
Location: Chapter 106, Section 4
Content:
4.
Now the good is active: for it is beneficial; and what is active is corporeal.
The good stimulates the mind and, in a way, moulds and embraces that which is essential to the body.
The goods of the body are bodily; so therefore must be the goods of the soul.
For the soul, too, is corporeal.