Seneca's lasting contribution to philosophy has been to the school of Stoicism with his moral essays. Stoicism was a popular philosophy in his period, and many upper-class Romans found in it a guiding ethical framework for political involvement. His writing is highly accessible and was the subject of attention from the Renaissance onwards by writers such as Michel de Montaigne.

It was once popular to regard Seneca as being very eclectic in his Stoicism, but modern scholarship views him as a fairly orthodox Stoic, albeit a free-minded one.
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