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Explore a Stoic garden as a doorway to enduring questions about fate, virtue, and how we read ancient wisdom.
In this edition, a thoughtful dialogue unfolds around a garden visit and the enduring ideas of Lipsius, Langius, and the Stoic tradition. It blends translation notes, historical context, and reflective passages that illuminate how garden scenes and classical philosophy illuminate modern concerns about public life, suffering, and human resilience.
- Vivid scenes of a garden as a setting for philosophy and conversation.
- Discussion of fate, necessity, and Providence in Stoic thought, with practical reflections.
- Notes on translation, interpretation, and the reception of classical authors.
- Historical glimpses that connect ancient ideas to contemporary readers.
Ideal for readers of philosophy, classical literature, and translation studies seeking a thoughtful, era-spanning perspective.
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Such evils, then, are common to all nations. If we recognise clearly that they have formed part of human experience in all ages, we shall cease to be unduly perturbed by them.
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Lipsius' dialogue, De Constantia, was published about 1584 at Leyden. Belgium had long been in the turmoil of civil war. In 1572 Lipsius' own property had been pillaged whilst he was travelling. He had been to Liege to see his friend Charles Lange (or Langius), Canon of Saint Lambert, and had afterwards gone on to Germany, Bohemia, and Saxony. After holding for a year or so a professorship at Jena, he returned to his home at Overyssche in 1575, by which time the civil war had subsided. But the troubles broke out again, and he had to fly to Louvain. Then in 1578, when the Spaniards entered Louvain, he went to Antwerp, and thence in 1579 to Leyden, where he had secured the chair of History.
His book, On Constancy, written, as he says, for his own edification, is an attempt to define the right attitude of a thoughtful man towards public evils such as Belgium endured. Lipsius wrote as a Stoic. Travel, he says, does not avail to cure the weariness and despondency which such evils induce. It is the mind itself which must be changed and made constant; and true constancy is founded on the judgments of right reason as distinguished from those of fickle opinion. The things which chiefly make assault upon our constancy are external good and evil things, both public and private. Of these, probably public evils (or reputed evils) are the most trying - such things, namely, as wars, pestilences, and tyrannies.
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