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Philosophical thought of the School of the Sextii
Omar Di Paolasubject
Roman Philosophy Ancient Sextii school Quintus Sextius Sextius Niger Seneca the Younger Papirius Fabianus Sotion Courage Roman school Early Roman Empire Roman Republic post-Hellenistic school philosophical-medical school virtuesSettore M-FIL/07 - Storia Della Filosofia AnticaFilosofia Romana Impero Romano Seneca il Giovane Papirio Fabiano Sozione Quinto Sestio Sestio Nigro Scuola dei Sesti Filosofia Imperiale ultimo periodo repubblica Romana scuole post-ellenistiche scuola medico-filosofica coraggio virtùdescription
Around the first half century B.C. the first Roman school of philosophy arose, which was called School of Sextii. The known members of the School were: Quintus Sextius the Elder, founding father of the School, Sextius Niger, Quintus' son, who became scholarch of the School after his father's death, Sotion, Papirius Fabianus (both teachers of Seneca the Younger), Crassicius Pasicles, a grammarian, and Celsius Cornelius, an expert doctor. The School followed the footsteps of the Hellenistic schools, and similar to these, the pursuit of happiness was its purpose. The school of the Sextii had taken to heart that part of the philosophy called physical, characterizing itself mainly as a philosophical-medical school, blending in its philosophy Pythagorean, Platonic, Cynic, and Stoic elements. The purpose of this paper is to underline the main features of the philosophical thought of the school, searching for possible new elements in its doctrine.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2014-01-01 |