De la providencia
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~8210 palabras · 39 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APALucio Anneo Séneca. (n.d.). Of Providence [De la providencia]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/seneca/of-providence
- MLALucio Anneo Séneca. Of Providence [De la providencia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/seneca/of-providence.
- ChicagoLucio Anneo Séneca. Of Providence [De la providencia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/seneca/of-providence.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
¿Por qué les pasan cosas malas a las personas buenas si el mundo lo gobierna la providencia? La respuesta estoica: la adversidad es el entrenamiento, y el sabio no es el que no sufre sino aquel a quien el sufrimiento no dobla.
Contexto e historia
Traducción inglesa de De providentia, escrito hacia el año 64 bajo Nerón. Esta entrada es la traducción inglesa; el original latino está aparte en el catálogo y es lo que hay que citar.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Do you consider Socrates to have been badly used, because he took that draught which the state assigned to him as though it were a charm to make him immortal, and argued about death until death itself? Was he ill treated, because his blood froze and the current of his veins gradually stopped as the chill of death crept over them? How much more is this man to be envied than he who is served on precious stones, whose drink a creature trained to every vice, a eunuch or much the same, cools with snow in a golden cup? Such men as these bring up again all that they drink, in misery and disgust at the taste of their own bile, while Socrates cheerfully and willingly drains his poison. As for Cato, enough has been said, and all men must agree that the highest happiness was reached by one who was chosen by Nature herself as worthy to contend with all her terrors: "The enmity," says she, "of the powerful is grievous, therefore let him be opposed at once by Pompeius, Caesar, and Crassus: it is grievous, when a candidate for public offices, to be defeated by one's inferiors; therefore let him be defeated by Vatinius: it is grievous to take part in civil wars, therefore let him fight in every part of the world for the good cause with equal obstinacy and ill-luck: it is grievous to lay hands upon one's self, therefore let him do so. What shall I gain by this? That all men may know that these things, which I have deemed Cato worthy to undergo, are not real evils." IV.