Why Is Seneca Considered To Be A Pessimist?

Seneca was a famous Roman Stoic philosopher from Spain who was fascinated with anger and wanted to do something about it. During his time in ancient Rome, anger was an enormous source of feelings and actions that he recognized the dangers and consequences that came along with it. What Seneca wanted to do was uncover a way to solve and relieve people from his or her anger. To Solve this problem Seneca had a few philosophies to follow by, for example, people who get furious at the world is because they are optimistic. Which means that people expect more from his or her peers that when they don't meet that expectation it makes them upset.
Furthermore, leading from Seneca’s point of view is that those people simply have the wrong expectations and to fix it they have to be more pessimistic. Being a pessimist is the complete opposite of an optimist because those who are pessimistic always think about the detrimental outcomes or what is the worse that can happen out of any situation. Having a pessimistic mindset will empower you to not be surprised when something unjust happens because being surprised leads to anger. Having a pessimistic or optimistic mindset has little control over how a person may feel. But something that they can …show more content…
In other words, force people to conform to our needs, but in reality, we cannot do that. However, as humans, we do this a lot and most of us realize that we can’t force things to go our way. We usually find out because it made someone mad and they got a full blow lecture argument about it or it was taught to them. Then there are other times like the 17th or 18th century where kings, queens, and presidents made their people conform to anything they seem fit. Though the only difference is that those people’s livelihood was at stake and they could not risk getting angry and those who did get angry and rebelled were killed or