Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill. In the field of ...

Upon his death, Seneca’s works were instantly popular and, according to Quintilian, “in the hands of every young man”. Seneca has been read by most everyone since, including the “French ...