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 —…

After defining the goal of life for Seneca — virtue, a perfected reason, wisdom as embodied in the figure of the sage — the second chapter of Part II of Ilsetraut Hadot’s Sénèque (Seneca)…

Last time, we saw Ilsetraut Hadot situating the Stoic conception of virtue between a Socratic “intellectualist” position — which would suggest that knowledge is sufficient (enough) for virtue and…