In section 42 of Being and Time, Martin Heidegger builds upon this earlier thinker’s idea that nature perfects the good of god, but care perfects the good of a human being. This man wrote that “I cannot now influence so strong a grief by polite and mild measures: it must be broken down by force” in a “consolation” written to a friend who lost her son, Marcia. This author, whose tract On Mercy originated the genre of “mirror of the princes,” wrote the Moral Epistles to his friend Lucilius. For 10 points, name this Stoic philosopher who served as Nero’s tutor.
In section 42 of Being and Time, Martin Heidegger builds upon this earlier thinker’s idea that nature perfects the good of god, but care perfects the good of a human being. This man wrote that “I cannot now influence so strong a grief by polite and mild measures: it must be broken down by force” in a “consolation” written to a friend who lost her son, Marcia. This author, whose tract On Mercy originated the genre of “mirror of the princes,” wrote the Moral Epistles to his friend Lucilius. For 10 points, name this Stoic philosopher who served as Nero’s tutor.
In section 42 of Being and Time, Martin Heidegger builds upon this earlier thinker’s idea that nature perfects the good of god, but care perfects the good of a human being.