SENECA'S LETTERS AS A SPECTACLE OF PHILOSOPHY
SENECA`s LETTERS AS A SPECTACLE OF PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: Seneca's resonance with his friend, Lucilius, the addressee of his letters, brings along the resonance with deeper subjects on life. The author of a new book on Seneca, Dana Jalobeanu, is aware of the differences between our age (when philosophy is not for many people an everyday practice, as it used to be in the past) and Antiquity. Her contribution is that of understanding the real resources of Seneca's style. As a writer of tragedies, Seneca must have longed for an optimal way to express his doubts in epistolary literary style reaching perfection. But this style should not become a rigid or ostentatious string of words merely creating a beautiful surface. The successful persuation towards stoic resilience, educating a fellow being to become a triumphant example of man who can stick to virtues through his own free will, these are aspects more important than the appearance of beautiful speech. Seneca employs for these directions an arsenal of creating/staging philosophy as a vivid spectacle of ideas

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