Hakuna Matata section 19 group 3: Seneca

We began to discuss the difference between the stoic beliefs of Epictetus, Cicero, and Seneca. Seneca had believed that the best way to live your life was away from the world and studying philosophy. Though we thought that was against the whole process of philosophy. To study philosophy wouldn't you want to be in society. Some ideas such as this is a little far fetched because you cant detach yourself from your human nature. An example we had found was in the movie cast away where wilson the volley ball became tom hanks friend. The way that Seneca actually lived was hypocritical to what he said is the perfect way to live. Most of his life he was living in a castle with Nero. Stoic is when you strip life down to the bare essentials and think that is the right way to live. Senecas death was a forced suicide, does this have something to do with his stoic principles? Which it is, he had to kill himself because there was no choice and you cant let your emotions blind what you cant change. We then decided that stoicism can be good in some situations but bad in others. It can be useful in your life to a certain extant. For example, Seneca being forced to commit suicide was too far. But on a rainy day, not getting pissed off about the weather would be good stoicism. The main idea of stoicism with suppressing emotions on decisions and ideas, we talked about how that is not really practical with all things in life.