Philosophy And Community In Seneca S Prose

Author : Carey Seal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190905859

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Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose by Carey Seal Pdf

The Roman philosopher Seneca addressed himself to the question of how we ought to live in letters and treatises that have engaged the attention of readers from his own day to the present. A committed, if critical and eccentric, adherent of Stoicism, he gives us a set of reflections on the good life that are rich both in philosophical subtlety and in vivid engagement with day-to-day life in ancient Rome. Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose proposes a new understanding of the relationship between these two facets of Seneca's achievement, examining how he balances the Socratic imperative to subject one's life to rational scrutiny, on the one hand, with the claims of Roman moral tradition on the other. Carey Seal argues that we should think of Seneca neither as a spokesman for Stoicism who seizes opportunistically upon the data of Roman social life to make his case, nor as an expositor of the inherited values of the Roman elite in the language of Stoic philosophy. Rather, Seneca should be understood as someone intensely interested in the question of philosophy's social entanglements and presuppositions. Seneca's use of Roman politics and of the institution of slavery in elaborating his ideal of a life guided by reason is carefully examined in the book.

Author : Seal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190493232

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Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose by Seal Pdf

Author : Lucius Annaeus Ca 4 B C -65 Seneca,Walter Baker Clode
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020800291

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The Morals of Seneca by Lucius Annaeus Ca 4 B C -65 Seneca,Walter Baker Clode Pdf

This book is a collection of the moral teachings of Seneca, the ancient Roman philosopher and statesman. Through a selection of his prose, Clode presents Seneca's wisdom on topics such as anger, grief, fear, and friendship. Seneca's insights into human nature and the human condition continue to inspire readers to this day. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Tommaso Gazzarri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110673777

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The Stylus and the Scalpel by Tommaso Gazzarri Pdf

Seneca’s developed metaphors draw on what is known to describe the unknown. They put hard ethical in highly accessible, and often quite entertaining, terms. The present book provides a functional description of Seneca’s dialectical relation between metaphorical language and philosophy. It shows how Stoic philosophy finds a new means of expression in Seneca’s highly elaborated rhetorical discourse, and how this relates to the social and cultural demands of Neronian culture. Metaphors are purposely utilized to work "collectively" rather than by category or type and that, therefore, the analysis of what metaphors do when Seneca chooses to combine them in clusters, demonstrates the existence of a "metanarrative of rhetoric". This approach is fundamentally innovative and has the advantage of gauging the functioning of Senecan style as a whole, rather than focusing on single features of its rhetorical functioning. The main target is to show how philosophical preaching materially contributes to the healing of human soul because it shapes the individual’s cognitive faculty in a way that is physical and not simply figurative. The stylus and the scalpel blend in their functions. This kind of therapy is not just the simulacrum of a more "real" one, it is in itself medical in nature.

Author : James Ker
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781610410502

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A Seneca Reader by James Ker Pdf

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015027631814

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The Morals of Seneca by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pdf

Author : Miriam T. Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199245482

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Seneca on Society by Miriam T. Griffin Pdf

A volume which explores in detail Seneca's De Beneficiis. Divided into three sections, it looks at the historical and philosophical context of the work, its relation to Seneca's other texts, and concludes with a detailed synopsis of each book, accompanied by notes in commentary form.

Author : Antonios Augoustakis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004266490

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Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past by Antonios Augoustakis Pdf

Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past breaks new ground by investigating the close interaction between Flavian poetry and Greek literary tradition and by evaluating the meaning of this affiliation in the socio-political and cultural context of the late first century CE. Authors examined include Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus. Their interaction with Greek literature is not just thematic or geographical: the Greek literary past is conceived as the poetic influence of a variety of authors, periods, and genres, such as Homer, the Cyclic tradition, Greek lyric poetry, Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry and aesthetics, and Greek historiography.

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Sénèque (le Philosophe.),Catherine Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198238942

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Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Sénèque (le Philosophe.),Catherine Phillips Pdf

New translations of significant political writings of Seneca, the most important Stoic philosopher.

Author : Katharina Volk,G. D. Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047409366

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Seeing Seneca Whole by Katharina Volk,G. D. Williams Pdf

This volume contains ten essays on Seneca the Younger. Approaching the Roman writer from various angles, the authors endeavor both to illuminate individual aspects of Seneca’s enormous output and to discern common themes among the different genres practiced by him.

Author : Margaret Graver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107164048

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Seneca by Margaret Graver Pdf

In-depth studies of Seneca's relation to Greek philosophy, his analysis of the emotions, and his project as a literary author.

Author : Alex Muir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004695528

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Paul and Seneca within the Ancient Consolation Tradition by Alex Muir Pdf

In this monograph, Alex W. Muir shows how Paul and Seneca were significant contributors to an ancient philosophical and rhetorical tradition of consolation. Each writer's consolatory career is surveyed in turn through close readings of key primary texts: chiefly Seneca's three literary consolations and 'Epistles'; and Paul's letters, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Corinthians, and Philippians. A final comparative dialogue highlights the pair's adaptations and innovations within this tradition.

Author : Paola Ceccarelli,Lutz Doering,Thorsten Fögen,Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192526236

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Letters and Communities by Paola Ceccarelli,Lutz Doering,Thorsten Fögen,Ingo Gildenhard Pdf

The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed, to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world, examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity. The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless, philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters to Lucilius.

Author : Therese Fuhrer, Janja Soldo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111317144

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Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature by Therese Fuhrer, Janja Soldo Pdf

Author : Gregory A. Staley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199742073

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Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy by Gregory A. Staley Pdf

As both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry and philosophy. Plato famously banned tragedians from his ideal community because he believed that their representations of vicious behavior could deform minds. Aristotle set out to answer Plato's objections, arguing that fiction offers a faithful image of the truth and that it promotes emotional health through the mechanism of catharsis. Aristotle's definition of tragedy actually had its greatest impact not on Greek tragedy itself but on later Latin literature, beginning with the tragedies of the Roman poet and Stoic philosopher Seneca (4 BC - AD 65). Scholarship over the last fifty years, however, has increasingly sought to identify in Seneca's prose writings a Platonic poetics which is antagonistic toward tragedy and which might therefore explain why Seneca's plays seem so often to present the failure of Stoicism. As Gregory Staley argues in this book, when Senecan tragedy fails to stage virtue we should see in this not the failure of Stoicism but a Stoic conception of tragedy as the right vehicle for imaging Seneca's familiar world of madmen and fools. Senecan tragedy enacts Aristotle's conception of the genre as a vivid image of the truth and treats tragedy as a natural venue in which to explore the human soul. Staley's reading of Seneca's plays draws on current scholarship about Stoicism as well as on the writings of Renaissance authors like Sir Philip Sidney, who borrowed from Seneca the word "idea" to designate what we would now label as a "theory" of tragedy. Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy will appeal broadly to students and scholars of classics, ancient philosophy, and English literature.