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en-wikipedia-org-8275		Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	8180	948	71	Seneca wrote a number of books on Stoicism, mostly on ethics, with one work (Naturales Quaestiones) on the physical world.[43] Seneca built on the writings of many of the earlier Stoics: he often mentions Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus;[44] and frequently cites Posidonius, with whom Seneca shared an interest in natural phenomena.[45] He frequently quotes Epicurus, especially in his Letters.[46] His interest in Epicurus is mainly limited to using him as a source of ethical maxims.[47] Likewise Seneca shows some interest in Platonist metaphysics, but never with any clear commitment.[48] His moral essays are based on Stoic doctrines.[39] Stoicism was a popular philosophy in this period, and many upper-class Romans found in it a guiding ethical framework for political involvement.[43] It was once popular to regard Seneca as being very eclectic in his Stoicism,[49] but modern scholarship views him as a fairly orthodox Stoic, albeit a free-minded one.[50]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8275.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8275.txt