Search results for "Stoicism"
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Normalitāte un ārkārtējība filosofiskā skatījumā
2022
MERCES… SENTICOSA. Immaginari stoici nei Floridia di Apuleio
2020
Merces… senticosa. Stoic images in the Florida of Apuleius · In the Florida Apuleius makes use of images related to the rhetorical-philosophical stoic tradition. In particular, in Fl. 18 Apuleius describes the famous sophism of Protagoras, by using, trought an intellectual virtuosity, the metaphor of thorns, a stylistic device linked with the characterization of the Stoicism.
Seneca on the Mother Cow: Poetic Models and Natural Philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia
2020
Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia embraces the orthodox Stoic view that, when unduly protracted, grief reflects a logical misunderstanding of the natural world, human life, and the limits of the self. Seneca is aware that persuading Marcia to leave her false beliefs is the only way to reawaken her interest in communal life, family reciprocity, and constructive memory. He conceives his consolatory writing as an intellectually engaging didactic work tailored to the needs and disposition of his addressee. The main purpose of the present paper is to show that in this and several other respects the Consolation to Marcia makes a conscious move towards the different but evidently related genre of did…
Runar M. Thorsteinsson, Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism. A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010, xiii + …
2012
Seneca on the Nature of Things: Moral Concerns and Theories of Matter in Natural Questions 6
2017
It is generally recognized that Lucretius' treatment of earthquakes and pestilences (6.535-607; 1090-1286) exerted great influence on Book 6 of Seneca's Natural Questions. But while a large consensus exists that both authors tend to emphasize the moral value of scientific knowledge, further research is needed with respect to Seneca's “technical” re-use of Epicurean physics and meteorology. In the present paper, I shall address this issue in three stages. First, I will analyze the structure and intellectual goals of Seneca's “doxographic” review of seismological theories (6.5-20). Far from being a doxographic account sensu proprio, such a careful review constructs the inspiring image of an i…
Lampa Seikilosa
2008
La stele di Sicilo (II sec. d.C.): il suo mistero, il suo significato.
Brīvība un vārds: rakstu krājums
2022
On February 14, 2022, the philosophy doctoral students organised the section “Freedom and Word” within the framework of the 80th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia. The collection contains proceedings read by doctoral students of the philosophy program. The proceedings reflect the topicality of freedom and word in the crosssection of the 21st century. The authors address the similitude and unifying aspects of individual and societal freedom, freedom as a practice, the borderline situations of using the word, and the relationship between the word and freedom.
Hablemos de ángeles calvos, demonios pelones y figuras grotescas en la escultura barroca gallega
2014
ABSTRACT: The unusual bald angels depicted in the interior of the sounding board of the pulpit on the Gospel side of the Monastery of San Martiño Pinario in Santiago de Compostela are the starting point to undertake an iconographical study of the representation of demons in Galician Baroque sculpture, primarily in that found in Santiago de Compostela. In this analysis I go beyond the mere identification of its characteristic attributes in order to try to reconstruct the contents that they could communicate within their cultural context. In order to do so, I turn to sources derived from sacred and profane literature, as well as to Neostoicism as the prevailing trend in Spanish Catholicism of…
Senekas pārdomas par nāvi: mūsdienu konteksts
2020
Nāves medicinizēšanas, eifemizācijas un transhumānisma diskursu noslogotajā šodienas realitātē Senekas filozofijas revitalizācija var kalpot par mudinājumu pārdomāt attieksmi pret mirstību un dzīvi tās perspektīvā. Senās Romas domātājs piedāvā aplicējamu domāšanas un uzvedības ietvaru, kas paredz baiļu atvairīšanu, sagatavošanos miršanas brīdim un tādējādi arī pastāvēšanas optimizēšanu un intensificēšanu, kā arī pašnāvības iespēju noteiktos gadījumos. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir Senekas pārdomu par nāvi sistemātiska atklāšana, ievietojot tās mūsdienu kontekstā. Darba nosaukumā fiksētais mūsdienu konteksts caurvij darbu divos aspektos. Pirmkārt, ar to nepieciešams saprast publisko uzskatu par …
The (Meta)politics of Thinking
2021
In this chapter, Jussi Backman approaches Hannah Arendt’s readings of ancient philosophy by setting out from her perspective on the intellectual, political, and moral crisis characterizing Western societies in the twentieth century, a crisis to which the rise of totalitarianism bears witness. To Arendt, the political catastrophes haunting the twentieth century have roots in a tradition of political philosophy reaching back to the Greek beginnings of philosophy. Two principal features of Arendt’s exchange with the ancients are highlighted. The first is her account, in The Human Condition (1958), of the profound transformation of the Greek perceptions of political life initiated by Plato, the…