Modern Scholarship - Seneca! Flashcards
“Despite its acceptance in educated circles, early stoicism had a forbidding aspect to it, which went far to explain its failure to influence the masses…(Seneca’s) letters and essays show a stoicism more closely reconciled with the facts and fraility of human nature.”
Robin Campbell.
“Despite its acceptance in educated circles, early stoicism had a forbidding aspect to it.”
Robin Campbell.
“(Seneca’s) letters and essays show a stoicism more closely reconciled with the facts and frailty of human nature.”
Robin Campbell.
“(For Seneca) True Love is, in many ways, analogous to an ideal friendship: both arise from mutual, genuine affection; neither is propelled by any ulterior motive, stemming from greed, profit, ambition, renown.”
Anne Motto.
“(For Seneca) True Love is, in many ways, analogous to an ideal friendship.”
Anne Motto.
“This is a cyclical reinforcement of care.”
- referring to Seneca’s relationship with his wife.
Liz Gloyn.
“Paulina is not simply facilitating her husband’s journey, she is shaping it.”
- Seneca’s equal relationship with his wife.
Liz Gloyn.
“the wise person in the marriage doesn’t have to be the husband.”
- in a Senecan Stoic relationship.
Liz Gloyn.
“This opens up the possibility of a wife guiding her husband towards virtue as well as vice versa.”
- a Senecan stoic relationship.
Liz Gloyn.
“He strongly disapproves of the sexual double standard…Seneca is not impressed with men who encourage women into adultery and then expect their own wives to remain faithful - they’ve lost the moral high ground.”
Liz Gloyn.
“Stoics held both men and women had the same capacity for achieving virtue.”
Liz Gloyn.
“Although Stoics recognised that men and women had the same potential for virtue, they seem to have remained within very traditionally gendered social frameworks for how they might use and demonstrate that virtue.”
Liz Gloyn.
- Musonius, for example, states that women being good at arguments is pointless for women because it won’t be any use for them in their lives - they won’t go into law.
