De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology
Seneca’s De ira, three books on anger, belongs to the earlier philosophical file around the 40s. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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Seneca’s De ira, three books on anger, belongs to the earlier philosophical file around the 40s. The dated ethics book is not the Corsican exile instrument and not the later Epistles. Seneca the Younger’s documented role is: He wrote three books on anger, often dated to the 40s. Later Loeb is access; exact year is conventional; the treatise is his. A treatise on anger is not the banishment. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.
Context
Caligula’s court as a neighbouring rage-file, unnamed brothers as addressees, and later editors already sit in the treatise. A book on anger is not unique undoing of imperial cruelty. Later Loeb is access. Named others on the file: Novatus/Gallio as addressee, later editors, and neighbouring court examples in the text share the book. The public setting is the file around 0041-06-01. The instrument stays De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology. The setting of De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology is the public file around 0041-06-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Medium confidence on unique year. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated ethics-of-anger book put public control-of-rage talk into Latin philosophy, distinct from the exile itself. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Shared responsibility is part of De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology. Naming Seneca the Younger does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0041-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Seneca
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.36 · verified
He wrote three books on anger, often dated to the 40s. Later Loeb is access; exact year is conventional; the treatise is his.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactDe ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 June 41 · verified
A dated ethics-of-anger book put public control-of-rage talk into Latin philosophy, distinct from the exile itself.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — SenecaStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — SenecaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and SEP independently identify De ira as a distinct Senecan treatise. Official: Britannica — Seneca, De ira (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucius-Annaeus-Seneca-Roman-philosopher-and-statesman (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Seneca, De ira (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Seneca, De ira (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucius-Annaeus-Seneca-Roman-philosopher-and-statesman (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Seneca, De ira (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Established: De ira as a Senecan treatise. Established: a sourced public record of De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology under 0041-06-01.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSeneca
- contributed toFactDe ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). De ira treats anger as a public ethical pathology. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sen-de-ira
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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