The sources of On the Happy Life

1. Plato 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   on the happy life 2 passages anchored here

   Plato is directly named as an authority figure subject to the same standing accusation, used to legitimize Seneca's own position.

   " This charge, you most malignant of creatures, you bitter enemies of every best man, was brought against Plato, brought against Epicurus, brought against Zeno;

2. reputation and biography concerning wealth Democritus 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage

   on the happy life

   The passage cites the accusation made against Democritus concerning money as an example of critics' complaints.

   Cast it in Plato's teeth that he sought money, in Aristotle's that he took it, in Democritus's that he neglected it, in Epicurus's that he spent it;

3. Aristophanes 1 neutral 1 citation

   on the happy life

   The passage names Aristophanes directly as a source of comic material against Socrates, reported as historical fact rather than argued for or against.

   I myself once furnished Aristophanes with matter for his jests;

4. Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation

   on the happy life

   The passage cites the accusation made against Aristotle concerning money as an example of critics' complaints.

   Cast it in Plato's teeth that he sought money, in Aristotle's that he took it, in Democritus's that he neglected it, in Epicurus's that he spent it;

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on the happy life 8 sources

Death and last words of Diodorus · Doctrine that pleasure cannot be separated from virtue · Life and philosophy of Zeno · Reputation of Epicurus's school as licentious · Stoic doctrine of living according to nature · Teachings of Epicurus · sacred writings / oracular teaching of philosophy · unspecified poetic tradition depicting Jupiter

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1. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral · 1 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages

   book 5 3 passages anchored here

   Piso explicitly criticizes Theophrastus's book on the happy life as giving 'a great deal indeed... to fortune' and calls the reasoning 'softer... and more effeminate,' a clear refutation of its conclusion.

   Which is chiefly brought about by Theophrastus's book on the happy life, in which a great deal indeed is given to fortune.

2. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation

   book 5

   Explicitly named work and author whose thesis is contested by the speaker's argument.

   But here this most elegant of all the philosophers and the most learned is not greatly reprehended when he says there are three kinds of goods, but he is harassed by all, first in that book which he wrote On the Happy Life, in which he disputes much why he who is tortured, who is racked, cannot be happy.