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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Letter LXV, how do friends get Seneca to stop reading and writing while he is sick?

2. Who says there are five causes?

3. According to Letter XCI, what town was destroyed by fire?

4. Who says there are four causes?

5. What does Seneca say the gods give man the capacity for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How, according to Letter LXXXIII, does Seneca spend his day?

2. What is Seneca's criticism of the typical liberal arts scholar?

3. What does Plato add to Aristotle's theory of causation?

4. How, according to Seneca, are life and philosophy both the gifts of the gods?

5. What fault does Seneca find in Zeno's logic that a good man will not drink to excess?

6. Why does Seneca move to the country and what effects result from the move?

7. What does Seneca say causes envy and how can envy be avoided?

8. What is the concept of causation according to Aristotle?

9. Why does Seneca believe only a philosopher can appreciate wisdom?

10. What is the value of a liberal arts education, according to Seneca?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is philosophy? What are ethics and what is the importance of ethics in philosophy?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the lives and deaths of Socrates and Seneca.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Seneca's life on Nero's court.

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