ONSIDE / PHILOSOPHY
Who was Seneca?
We are often asked, who was Seneca? And what relevance does
a Roman philosopher have to a business in the financial sector?
M
any people have heard
the everyday phrase
“philosophically speaking”
without ever pausing to understand
its true meaning or origin.
It derives from the Roman
philosopher Seneca the Younger, who
was tutor to the Emperor Nero and
occasional political rising star in the
Roman empire.
He died in AD49 at his own hand,
having learned that he was to be killed
under the orders of the unpredictable
Emperor.
In his death, he evoked the Greek
philosopher Socrates who explained
how philosophy enabled the learned
to rise above external circumstance ̸)%Ё݅́