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Title page
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Contents
List of Figures
Preface
List of Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations
Introduction: Seneca's Philosophical Literature
Part I Recreating the Stoic Past
Chapter 1 The Life of the Mind: Seneca and the Contemplatio Veri
The Arguments of On Leisure
On Leisure and the Stoic Tradition
Tensions within the Argument
Letters on Ethics: The Rule of Genre
Representing the Philosophical Life
Chapter 2 Action and Emotion: Seneca and the Stoic Tradition
Thought, Belief, and Action
Emotion and Eupathic Response
The Theory of Action in Seneca
Seneca on Emotion and Eupathic Response
Chapter 3 The Treatise On Benefits: Real Kindness and Real Agency
Defining a Benefit
Enactment
Persistence
Intersubjectivity and Independence
Specificity of Aim
Autonomy and Freedom
Part II Rival Traditions in Philosophy
Chapter 4 Seneca and Epicurus
Extent and Provenance of Seneca's Knowledge
Physics and Theology
Ethics
Leisure and Contemplation
Maxims and Meditation
Human Nature and the Tactics of the Therapist
Chapter 5 Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the School of Aristotle
Explicit Citations
Implicit References
Letter 92 and Stobaean Doxography ''C''
Seneca's Version of the Tripartite Mind
Distinctive Features of Seneca's Peripatetics
Part III Models of Emotional Experience
Chapter 6 Seneca's Therapy for Anger
Anger Theory in Book 1
Book 2: The Causal History of Anger
The Predicted Therapy
The Therapies of Book 2
The Preface to Book 3
The Therapeutic Program of Book 3
Chapter 7 The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Letter
Mourning without Grief
''A Necessity of Nature''
Eupathic Tears?
An Epicurean Expedient
Chapter 8 Anatomies of Joy: Seneca and the Gaudium Tradition
The Convergent Stoic Account
Seneca and the Convergent Account
Kinetic versus Static Joy
Mutual Joys
Joys as ''Primary Goods''
Seven Senecan Joys
Part IV The Self within the Text
Chapter 9 The Challenge of the Phaedrus: Therapeutic Writing and the Letters on Ethics
Deficiencies of the Written Word
Speaking across Time and Space
Finding the Right Audience
One Half of a Conversation
Reader Emotions and Moral Progress
Chapter 10 The Mouse, the Moneybox, and the Six-Footed Scurrying Solecism: Satire and Riddles in Seneca's Philosophy
Seneca's Comic Style
Tambourines and Riddle-Syllogisms
The Pilferer in the Garden
''Greek Shoes and Cloaks''
Chapter 11 The Manhandling of Maecenas: Senecan Abstractions of Masculinity
The Condition of the Ingenium
The Nature of the Masculine
The Psychology of Virtus
Peculiar Results
Epilogue: Seneca and the Malagma Moecharum
Chapter 12 Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting
Reading Like a Honeybee
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
List of Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations
Introduction: Seneca's Philosophical Literature
Part I Recreating the Stoic Past
Chapter 1 The Life of the Mind: Seneca and the Contemplatio Veri
The Arguments of On Leisure
On Leisure and the Stoic Tradition
Tensions within the Argument
Letters on Ethics: The Rule of Genre
Representing the Philosophical Life
Chapter 2 Action and Emotion: Seneca and the Stoic Tradition
Thought, Belief, and Action
Emotion and Eupathic Response
The Theory of Action in Seneca
Seneca on Emotion and Eupathic Response
Chapter 3 The Treatise On Benefits: Real Kindness and Real Agency
Defining a Benefit
Enactment
Persistence
Intersubjectivity and Independence
Specificity of Aim
Autonomy and Freedom
Part II Rival Traditions in Philosophy
Chapter 4 Seneca and Epicurus
Extent and Provenance of Seneca's Knowledge
Physics and Theology
Ethics
Leisure and Contemplation
Maxims and Meditation
Human Nature and the Tactics of the Therapist
Chapter 5 Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the School of Aristotle
Explicit Citations
Implicit References
Letter 92 and Stobaean Doxography ''C''
Seneca's Version of the Tripartite Mind
Distinctive Features of Seneca's Peripatetics
Part III Models of Emotional Experience
Chapter 6 Seneca's Therapy for Anger
Anger Theory in Book 1
Book 2: The Causal History of Anger
The Predicted Therapy
The Therapies of Book 2
The Preface to Book 3
The Therapeutic Program of Book 3
Chapter 7 The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Letter
Mourning without Grief
''A Necessity of Nature''
Eupathic Tears?
An Epicurean Expedient
Chapter 8 Anatomies of Joy: Seneca and the Gaudium Tradition
The Convergent Stoic Account
Seneca and the Convergent Account
Kinetic versus Static Joy
Mutual Joys
Joys as ''Primary Goods''
Seven Senecan Joys
Part IV The Self within the Text
Chapter 9 The Challenge of the Phaedrus: Therapeutic Writing and the Letters on Ethics
Deficiencies of the Written Word
Speaking across Time and Space
Finding the Right Audience
One Half of a Conversation
Reader Emotions and Moral Progress
Chapter 10 The Mouse, the Moneybox, and the Six-Footed Scurrying Solecism: Satire and Riddles in Seneca's Philosophy
Seneca's Comic Style
Tambourines and Riddle-Syllogisms
The Pilferer in the Garden
''Greek Shoes and Cloaks''
Chapter 11 The Manhandling of Maecenas: Senecan Abstractions of Masculinity
The Condition of the Ingenium
The Nature of the Masculine
The Psychology of Virtus
Peculiar Results
Epilogue: Seneca and the Malagma Moecharum
Chapter 12 Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting
Reading Like a Honeybee