Seneca on Master and Slave
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🗓️ 26 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this letter, Seneca is arguing against the treatment of slaves and uses slavery as a metaphor to illustrate how we allow things to control us and the importance of freeing ourselves.
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