On real ethics as superior to syllogistic subtleties
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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.
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How, I ask you, can that which is still nothing be already a Good?
And in what better way do you wish it to be proved to you that a certain thing is not, than to say: “It is yet to be”?
For it is clear that something which is on the way has not yet arrived. “Spring will follow”: I know that winter is here now. “Summer will follow:” I know that it is not summer.
The best proof to my mind that a thing is not yet present is that it is yet to be.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On real ethics as superior to syllogistic subtleties
Location: Chapter 117, Section 28
Content:
28.
How, I ask you, can that which is still nothing be already a Good?
And in what better way do you wish it to be proved to you that a certain thing is not, than to say: “It is yet to be”?
For it is clear that something which is on the way has not yet arrived. “Spring will follow”: I know that winter is here now. “Summer will follow:” I know that it is not summer.
The best proof to my mind that a thing is not yet present is that it is yet to be.