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HOW TO DO THE RIGHT THING - SENECA GEBUNDEN

It doesn't take long after learning to speak for children to utter the cry  That's not fair!
That familiar exclamation seems to emerge from a primal human sense: you know how you deserve
to be treated  and you know that you have not been treated that way-you've been given a raw
deal  you've not been done right by. In this volume for our Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
series  Robert Kaster explores how we treat others at the everyday  person-to-person level 
taking as his source the ethical writings of the Stoic philosopher Seneca. Though Seneca does
not quite address the demands of fairness as the central topic in any of his ethical writings 
relevant principles and words of advice appear throughout them. Kaster has selected passages
from On Benefits and On Mercy  the twelve short essays on disparate themes collected in his
Dialogues  and the most influential of his works  the Moral Epistles. He takes as his
organizing principle one of the key premises of Stoic thought: you cannot do right by others
unless you sort yourself out first  and sorting yourself out begins and ends with your mind.
Doing right by others requires cultivating a great mind (magnus animus) and achieving
magnanimity (magnanimitas)  the quality that ensures (among other things) that one always give
others what they deserve-in every way  from material goods to personal respect  and even
punishment. He has organized the selections into five chapters  each giving a different view of
doing the right thing when it comes to our relations with others: Striving for Magnanimity 
Being Calm  Thinking Clearly  Judging Yourself Fairly  Doing Right by Others  and Being
Merciful.--

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