El objetivo de este artículo será reflexionar sobre la experiencia estoica sobre la muerte en El día de la partida de Enrique Serrano. El día de la partida es el relato de la muerte de un hombre a ...quien el gobernador de la época le ordena su propio suicidio. Todo el suceso ocurre en 24 horas. El discurso se concentra en saber cómo es que Séneca (un fiel representante de la filosofía estoica) enfrentará su propia muerte. El propósito será alcanzado de la siguiente manera. En primer lugar, haremos un análisis estructural del cuento para descubrir la manera cómo está organizado el tiempo, la trama y el espacio. Seguidamente, realizaremos un acercamiento al momento histórico de los personajes. Luego, nos concentraremos en el análisis temático del cuento en aras de descubrir el tema principal y mostrar las razones de su argumentación. Por último, presentaremos de forma breve las conclusiones del camino recorrido.
Stoic philosophy represents an important reference point for European cultural and intellectual history. This volume elucidates the impact of stoic philosophy on theology and the philosophy of ...religion. It examines the theological underpinnings of ancient stoicism as the essential basis of the stoic conceptual system. From this starting point, the book develops and interprets the other topoi of stoic philosophy.
The sense in which Spanish authors in the Baroque period employ the word 'labyrinth' presupposes an evolution, from ancient understanding of it, which the present article aims to outline. For ...Classical authors the word had the physical sense of a 'complex construction', although it could also be used metaphorically. But already in certain texts (Virgil, Ovid), the narration of the Cretan myth invited a moralizing interpretation which is given further prominence in late medieval and Renaissance texts. A further elaboration sees the labyrinth converted into a theological symbol representing deceit, offering an erroneous path which the Christian must avoid. Once these and other parallel lines of development have been traced, it becomes possible to see how complex is the use Calderón makes of the concept in El laberinto del mundo.
This is a collective study, in nine chapters, of the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The Stoic god is best described as the single active physical principle that ...governs the whole cosmos. The first part of the book covers three essential topics in Stoic theology: the active and demiurgical character of god, his corporeal nature and irreducibility to matter, and fate as the network of causes through which god acts upon the cosmos. The second part turns to Stoic cosmology, and how it relates to other cosmologies of the time. The third part examines the ethical and religious consequences of the Stoic theories of god and cosmos.
Al hilo de la lectura de la filosoña de los últimos estoicos romanos, exponemos las siguientes cuestiones: la tarea esencialmente pedagógica de la filosofía; la conexión del estoicismo con la ...filosofía de Camus, en cuanto ambos conforman una educación para afrontar el sufrimiento y la problemática de la existencia humana; y el elemento crítico de las convenciones sociales que posee la filosofía estoica, recogido por Rousseau y presente en su pedagogía. Finalmente, concluiremos con unas reflexiones generales que relacionan los elementos estudiados y extraen consecuencias para la educación. In parallel with the reading of the philosophy of late Roman Stoics, the following issues are raised: the essentially pedagogical task of Philosophy; the connection of Stoicism with the philosophy of Camus, in as much both conforms an education to confront the suffering and the problematic one of human existence; and the critical element of social conventions which the Stoic Philosophy maintains, recovered by Rousseau and present in his pedagogy. Finally, we will conclude with some general reflections that relate the studied elements and extract consequences for education.
This paper is an indirect critique of the practice of American liberal education. I show that the liberal, integrative model that American colleges and universities have adopted, with one key ...exception, is essentially an approach to education proposed some 2400 years ago by Stoic philosophers. To this end, I focus on a critical sketch of the Stoic model of education-chiefly through the works of Seneca, Epictetus, and Aurelius-that is distinguishable by these features: education as self-knowing, the need of logic and critical thinking for informed decision-making, learning as preparation for life, and knowledge for integration in private, local, and global affairs. Such a critical sketch may not only help institutions instantiate their own similar aims more effectively, but also help them assess those aims with apposite normative force, which today they lack.
Adam Smith adopts Stoic language in order to describe beauty and virtue as valuable in themselves, independently of praise or external circumstance. Smith's concept of beauty, with an emphasis on ...fitness, is described in Stoic terms as an intrinsic value rather than in terms of interest or advantage. Smith reads Cicero as a quasi-Stoic but somewhat more skeptical writer, somehow immune from the rigorous moral perfectionism that Smith sees in Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism, a partiality that influenced Francis Hutcheson, who lauded Aurelius. Smith's distinctive understanding of Cicero enables him to innovate by applying Stoic language to new fields, moving from natural jurisprudence to political economy. Cicero's language in Cato Maior (An Essay on Old Age) is crucial to Smith's concept of beauty as independence and his development of a new concept of natural liberty in his own political economy. Following the Stoics, Smith thinks that the most important virtue inherent in agriculture is its "independence, "a synonym for "beauty" in Stoic language, by which he refers to farmers' capacity to envisage and implement improvements in their lands and practices on their own initiative.
