Ideas y Valores (Aug 2015)

Therapeutic Strategies and Intellectualism in On Anger by Seneca

  • Rodrigo Sebastián Braicovich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v64n158.40098
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 64, no. 158
pp. 85 – 105

Abstract

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I try to show that a) the treatise On Anger by Seneca includes not one but two therapeutic strategies designed to avoid anger and that b) the second of these strategies –which has been neglected in the secondary literature– presents unsolvable problems when we contrast it with the Stoic theory of action, which is rooted in intellectualist premises.

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