Precept(or) and Example in Seneca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23185776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Roller, Matthew B Roller (0000-0002-8784-4112, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 129-156 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Roman Reflections (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199999767.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2477132557 |
| ISBN | 9780199999767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This chapter argues that, while Seneca frequently deploys everyday Roman exemplary discourse in a fairly traditional way, in Letters 94 and 108 he subjects this discourse to a searching critique, identifying, from a Stoic viewpoint, a series of deficiencies in its capacity to register and assign moral value. A given glorious deed may have been motivated by a vice, not a virtue; a virtuous condition of soul can be inferred only on the basis of multiple observations over time. Focusing as it does on the individual deed in the singular moment, for Seneca Roman exemplary discourse cannot ordinarily meet this standard of multiple and layered observation; and yet, for all its faults, Seneca hardly abandons this discourse, but proposes revisions to its functioning in order to accommodate it better to Stoic ethics.
Art · Deed · Epistemology · Literature · Order (exchange) · Political science · Precept · Soul · Theology · Value (mathematics) · Virtue · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Mathematics · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2021 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |