Seneca Scholarship Flashcards
(8 cards)
Wilson
‘Socrates’
Seneca is a Socrates without a Plato telling his story.
Wilson
‘Hypocrite’
Seneca was … highly conscious of his own distance from the Stoic ideal.
Wilson
‘Control’
Seneca wanted control over both his public and private life.
Bartsch
‘Philosophers’
The philosopher himslef is now associated with the unmanly role of the eromenos.
Bartsch
‘Plato’
The idea of the body being a prison for the soul sounds more like a Plato idea.
Gloyn
‘Unnatural’
Seneca does not like things he deems to be unnatural.
- homosexuality
He goes on to talk about greenhouses that allow plants to grow in the winter.
Gloyn
‘Relationships’
The stoic principle is not that people cannot have relationships but they must be rational.
Gloyn
‘Gender equality’
Stoicism suggests that every human has an equal potential for virtue, there is a sense of gender equality.
