Having completed the analysis of the Aristotelians (see here), Hadot turns in Sénèque to the Stoics’ great rival in the Hellenistic period: the Epicureans. This section of the text is in fact extremely important, insofar as Hadot will claim…

Last time, we saw that Ilsetraut Hadot argues that the Stoic conception of philosophy, with its three parts of physics, ethics, and logic, prevents any simple hierarchization between the different philosophical studies…

What place could logic play in a conception of philosophy as spiritual direction, such as Ilsetraut Hadot assigns to Seneca?

We saw in the last entry how Seneca’s official position on the parts of philosophy is definitively orthodox —…

Where we’ve arrived in the Seneca and spiritual direction series

We’ve finally arrived at Part II of Ilsetraut Hadot’s great work, Sénèque, on the great Roman…