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De Otio (On Leisure) is a 1st-century Latin work by Seneca (4 BC–65 AD). It survives in a fragmentary state. The work concerns the rational use of spare time, whereby one can still actively aid humankind by engaging in wider questions about nature and the universe.
In its extant form the De Otio begins abruptly in the midst of a plea for the life of retirement. The theme, apparently, was part of the introduction of the essay, since the formal division of the subject is preserved at the end of Chapter 2.
7 de ago. de 2003 · This holds particularly for such works as the so-called “dialogues” De otio and De brevitate vitae, which oscillate violently between images of everyday Roman life and the idealized philosophical life that Seneca presses upon his addressees.
Quod nisi 1 in otio non fit. Tunc potest obtineri quod semel placuit, ubi nemo intervenit, qui iudicium adhuc imbecillum populo adiutore detorqueat; tunc potest vita aequali et uno tenore procedere, quam propositis diversissimis scindimus. [2] Nam inter cetera mala illud pessimum est, quod vitia ipsa mutamus.
1. 5. Solemus dicere summum bonum esse secundum naturam vivere. Natura nos ad utrumque genuit, et contemplationi rerum et actioni. [32] . Nunc id probemus, quod prius diximus. Quid porro? Hoc non erit probatum, si se unusquisque consuluerit, quantam cupidinem habeat ignota noscendi, quam ad 2 omnis fabulas excitetur? Navigant quidam et. 188.
29 de jun. de 2021 · The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing different but complementary aspects of Senecan philosophy: in De otio, one's duty to the 'active' life, in De brevitate vitae, one's duty to oneself in reclaiming life from the impositions made upon the self.
30 de ene. de 2003 · De otio. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Cambridge University Press, Jan 30, 2003 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 271 pages. This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and...
