By Erik Gunderson
This is often a longer meditation on ethics in literature around the Senecan corpus. There are chapters at the ethical Letters, asking how one is to learn philosophy or how you can write approximately being. relocating from the Letters to the usual Questions and Dialogues, Professor Gunderson explores how authorship works on the point either one of the paintings and of the realm, the ethics of seeing, and the query of ways you will hand over at the right here and now and behold as an alternative another, higher moral sphere. Seneca's tragedies supply phrases of warning: hope may well good subvert cause at its so much profound point (Phaedra), or humanity's painful separation from the elegant can be a part of a few merciless divine plan (The insanity of Hercules). The publication concludes by way of contemplating what, if something, we're to make of Seneca's efforts to enlighten us.
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But will it or won’t it serve philosophy itself in the end? Philological misreading threatens philosophy with a collapse. Conversely, philological reading may well be able to serve the good life, or at least point out the true difficulty of the path before us. Notice, then, the polyvocal uoces invoked by Seneca. These are phrases and pronouncements, words in the abstract and maxims in the concrete. ” The “voice” of philosophy is thus both the sentiment entailed in a philosophical phrase and the actual voice of the philosopher who speaks it.
Philological misreading threatens philosophy with a collapse. Conversely, philological reading may well be able to serve the good life, or at least point out the true difficulty of the path before us. Notice, then, the polyvocal uoces invoked by Seneca. These are phrases and pronouncements, words in the abstract and maxims in the concrete. ” The “voice” of philosophy is thus both the sentiment entailed in a philosophical phrase and the actual voice of the philosopher who speaks it. Already at the level of the word uox, the uox uocis, if you will, we find a translation between orders.
Of course, we are already wondering whose voice that was: Sotion’s own? Sotion recalling the questions his own teacher once put to him? Seneca’s voice as he put words into Sotion’s mouth? Or is the situation more complex: has Seneca’s own voice become Sotion’s own under his tutelage? For if we have read up to this point in the Letters more generally, we recognize the moment as “pure Seneca”: we’ve seen this sort of thing many times before in the preceding letters. Seneca’s reading lesson teaches us how to interrogate a text.