Animus. A Study of Seneca's Psychology

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_545
dc.creator	Cassan Melania
dc.title	Animus. A Study of Seneca's Psychology
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The notion of soul represents the beating heart of Seneca’s thought, as it constitutes the essential starting point for the investigation of numerous other aspects of his philosophy: the soul knows, judges, remembers, chooses, acts, suffers, feels. In this sense, studying the soul in its main elements, its characteristics, its structure and its functioning, is the necessary condition for understanding the author’s own theory of knowledge, action and passion. The explication of these essential theoretical premises is precisely the purpose of this work. In short, the present study aims to investigate the question of the soul – human, primarily – in the philosophical reflections of Seneca, bringing out a complex and philosophically pregnant picture that accounts for the main aspects of the theme in question. It is thus sketched a conception of the soul that is deeply in line with the dictates of the Stoic school and, at the same time, intimately Senecan.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Supplements
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Ancient Philosophy
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-630-5
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-11-17
dc.dateAccepted	2022-02-02
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-01-18
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-631-2/
dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-631-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-630-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ethics
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	Seneca
dc.subject	Soul
dc.subject	Stoicism

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Animus. A Study of Seneca's Psychology

Melania Cassan Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

The notion of soul represents the beating heart of Seneca’s thought, as it constitutes the essential starting point for the investigation of numerous other aspects of his philosophy: the soul knows, judges, remembers, chooses, acts, suffers, feels. In this sense, studying the soul in its main elements, its characteristics, its structure and its functioning, is the necessary condition for understanding the author’s own theory of knowledge, action and passion. The explication of these essential theoretical premises is precisely the purpose of this work. In short, the present study aims to investigate the question of the soul – human, primarily – in the philosophical reflections of Seneca, bringing out a complex and philosophically pregnant picture that accounts for the main aspects of the theme in question. It is thus sketched a conception of the soul that is deeply in line with the dictates of the Stoic school and, at the same time, intimately Senecan.

Published

Nov. 17, 2022

Accepted

Feb. 2, 2022

Submitted

Jan. 18, 2022

Language

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-631-2

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-630-5

Number of pages

198

Dimensions

16x23 cm

Keywords

Soul • Ethics • Seneca • Stoicism • Psychology

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