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Pantagruel (I) (Details)

Pantagruel (I) (Részletek)

Author(s): François Rabelais / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 03/2010

(Gulyás Adrienn fordítása, a fordító elôszavával)

Literature as “family memorabilia”: the father figure in Jergović and Bernhard

Literatura jako „rodzinne memorabilia”. Jergović i Bernhard o ojcu

Author(s): Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor / Language(s): / Issue: 5/2014

This article deals with second-generation memory and its literary representation. Kaszowska-Wandor’s comparative analyses of Thomas Bernhard’s novel Extinction and Miljenko Jergović’s essay “The Father” draws on hermeneutic and methodological frameworks provided by W.G. Sebald and post-memory studies. The father-son relationship that underlies both Bernhard’s and Jergović’s texts functions as a prism to examine how individual and communal memory relate to literature. To describe their relationship, Kaszowska-Wandor proposes the notion of memorabilia as a functional metaphor. Thus she contributes to current debates on literature’s place within discourses on historical and autobiographical memory.

Lumen Gentium – History, Ideas, Plan of the Revival of the Church

Lumen gentium – historia, idee, program odnowy Kościoła

Author(s): Przemysław Sawa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: history of Lumen gentium; revival of the Church; identity and structure of the Church; hierarchy and charisms; the Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council became an important light for the Church in its inner revival and in focusing on the multidimensional world. It is expressed in 4 constitutions, 9 decrees and 3 declarations. The Constitution Lumen gentium presents the Church using the following categories: the mystery, the sacrament of salvation, The People of God, the divine-human reality, hierarchical and charismatic structure, various states on the way to the eschatological fulfillment, where Mary is the icon of believers. The Council also showed the important role of the laity in the identity of the Church. This new vision was not only a cosmetic change of the form of expression of the content of faith, but a new understanding of the Church, rooted in the Bible and the patristic teaching. At the same time some questions demand a further deepening and defining: the relationship between the Petrine Office and the college of bishops, the collegiality of bishops, the relationship between the office and the charism in practice, the form of responsibility of lay persons in the Church. It was courageous of the Second Vatican Council to show that the principle Ecclesia semper reformanda is real. The Church lead by the Holy Spirit transforms into new community, improves, converts, rejects what is not the essence of faith, but only a human form, good in a particular time and place. So there is no agreement on the revolution, but on the cleansing and progress.

THE EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CAUSATION IN PHILOSOPHY AND CRIMINAL LAW SOURCES

PRIEŽASTINIO RYŠIO GENEZĖ IR EVOLIUCIJA FILOSOFIJOS IR BAUDŽIAMOSIOS TEISĖS ŠALTINIUOSE

Author(s): Linas Žalnieriūnas / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: criminal law; causality; causation; causation theory; genesis of causation;

This article gives an overview of the emergence and development of causation as a scientific category, as well as a specific criminal law institute, in the sources of philosophy and law. Causation content is analysed in chronological order by reviewing the sources of causality at different periods in civilisation. A more detailed analysis is carried out on major works and theories that have contributed to understanding the evolution of causation. The article compares different branches of science and law to determine how causation theories evolved and which ones provide the basis for the creation of today’s mechanism for proving causation. It attempts to answer the question, “Is the initial understanding of causation developed in philosophy significant for the criminal law of today?” The article explains the basis for the formation of causation theories used in current criminal law in Lithuania. It provides an introduction to discourse on the problematic of causality, which will reveal the genesis and evolution of causation.

The Prophecies of the “Many-Gift[ed]”

Пророчествата на много(на)дарения

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 20/2012

The submitted essay deals with the origin and development of the mythological figure of Polydorus (the translation of the name from Ancient Greek means as much as „many-gift[ed]”) and its eventual rooting in well-known ritual practices in Ancient Thrace. Although the name comes up already in Homer’s Iliad, in ancient-Greek literary tradition it is generally associated with Euripides’ tragedy Hecuba (dated to ca. 425 BC, mostly because of the occurrence in its text of allusions to the revival of the Delos Festivities in 426 BC). The whole conception of the tragedy Hecuba seems to be organized namely with a view to the localization of the tragic action in Thrace, in an explicit Thracian context; this fact has presumably led a number of researchers preoccupied with its study to the assumption that the mythological figures of Polydorus and of the Thracian king Polymestor are not to be regarded as a result just of Euripides’ purely poetical fantasy – they have rather been loaned from some local “gloomy” myth from the Thracian Chersonese. Does it seem possible to reconstruct an eventual cult situation pre-conditioned by the Thracian localization of the action of the tragedy feeding up the tragic characters in Euripides’ tragedy? The exposition is organized in 3 main groups of source problems: 1. In the first place is considered the mythic-literary complex related to the epiphany and prophecies of Polydorus in the context of Euripides’ tragedy Hecuba and its literary tradition. The appearance of the ghost of Polydorus deliberately removes the pathos of the tragedy from the figure of Achilles and his traditional ritual space in Troas (eventually near Sigeon, where the ancient authors localized Achilleion and the burial tumulus of the hero) in Thrace, and, respectively, on the Thracian Chersonese. Through the incorporation of the ritual space of the Thracian Chersonese into the range of events in his tragedy Euripides created a new model of the dramaturgic space, also adding a new functionality to it by means of the metaphoric image of Ancient Thrace as identification of the specific border area and borderline situation of the tragedy crisis. One may suppose however that the author suggested this particular approach in the literary interpretation of the mythological material not so much as a response to his dramaturgical prototypes – whoever they might be – as rather as following the logics of the Thracian localization of the events of the tragedy action. 2. All this also very clearly indicates the post-Euripidean tradition about Polydorus considered in the second place in the submitted essay. After the staging of Euripides’ tragedy Hecuba in the last quarter of the 5th century BC the mythological figure of Polydorus “was revived” only during the 2nd century BC through the imitations of Roman tragedians like Ennius (Hecuba), Pacuvius (Iliona), and Accius (Hecuba). The mythological narrative about Polydorus in Latin literature – especially the version of Pacuvius (Iliona) and the Chronical of the Trojan War, referred to Dictys of Crete and dated to AD 4th century – is an original evolvement-interpretation of the Euripidean tradition merging anonymous sources of mythology with Homeric elements. 3. The most significant tendency of development of the mythological narrative on Polydorus offers the tradition connecting Polydorus’ prophecies with the founding of the city of Aineia (Αἴνεια; Aene(i)a; alternatively – Aineiadai as designation of its inhabitants, as well as of the city of Aenus situated on the shore of the river Hebros), assigned to Aeneus. This tendency reveals an earlier circle of sources, alternative to the tradition of the foundation of Alba Longa, where Aeneus founds an eponymous city in Thrace and dies (or – his father Anchises) being buried there as a heros oikistes. An integral moment of a great part of the mythic-literary versions is the specific cult situation surrounding an underground mystery sanctuary (tumulus or cave) with a prophesying (anthropodaemonized) “Bacchus’ prophet” identified with the epic hero Polydorus. Certainly, the Roman authors oriented their efforts towards the developing of the conception on the foundation of Alba Longa by Aeneus, omitting the earlier mythographic details about the stay of the hero in Thrace. 4. Finally, last but not least, the literary material is analyzed in the Dionysian context of the tragedy conceptualization of Euripides’ Hecuba, where oracular dreams, prophecies and Bacchic associations frame up the mythic-dramaturgical events as a whole. The outlines of the Dionysian ritual space, in which the action of the tragedy Hecuba is embedded, appear dramaturgically sealed by some additional artistic strokes deliberately loading the women of Troy with Dionysian characteristics. The conclusion yields the hypothesis that we may possibly be facing a literary, respectively dramaturgic reinterpretation of a cult situation surrounding an underground mystery sanctuary (tumulus or cave) with an anthropodaemonized “Bacchus’ oracle” prophesying there, in this case identified with the (pseudo-) Homeric hero Polydorus. It seems very probable that Euripides merged the image of the epic hero Polydorus, generally associated with Dionysos, with the figure of the local Thracian anthropodaemonic prophet, towards which a sanctuary with an oracle site of Dionysian type leans, thus laying the beginnings of a new literary tradition. The pattern of the mythical creation might appear identical with that of the tragedy Rhesus ascribed to Euripides. Reconstructible seems also the steady mythological core and the ritual complex related to the founding of a new city, along with the required underground mystery sanctuary (tumulus or cave) with a prophesying (anthropodaemonized) oracle (“Bacchus’ prophet”) there, as an alternative to the Delphic oracle site.

Cohors I Belgarum and its Members from the Area of Ljubuški

Prva kohorta Belgâ i njeni pripadnici u ljubuškom kraju

Author(s): Almir Marić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 45/2016

Keywords: cohors I Belgarum; Ljubuški; Humac; camp; epigraphic monuments; auxiliary troops; local recruitment;

This paper analyzes monuments of the First Belgian cohort (cohors I Belgarum equitata) from the area of Ljubuški. Of all the cohorts that were settled in Humac, most registered monuments belong to the auxiliaries of this unit. Three officers are among them (centurion, decurion, signifer), and ordinary soldiers whose monuments are mostly fragmented with damaged inscription field. Four monuments of this kind were discovered. Besides these monuments, we analyzed votive monuments mentioning cohors I Belgarum equitata, such as monuments dedicated to Liber, Fortuna Augusta, Mithra and emperor’s genius. We have found that these votive monuments are not adequately interpreted in the current scientific literature, and we offer a new reading. Also, paper discusses the question of marriage of Roman soldiers, as well as recruitment of local young men in the roman auxiliary troops.

The royal laws and the Spanish universities in the XVIIIth century

El derecho real y las universidades españolas en el siglo XVIII

Author(s): Belinda Rodríguez Arrocha / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 2(1)/2014

Keywords: Canon law; handbooks; Roman law; Royal law; Universities;

During the Early Modern Age the study of Roman and canon law was undoubtedly an important fact in the Spanish universities. However, the instruction in the Castilian laws – like the Siete Partidas or the Nueva Recopilacion – was a gap in the academic curriculum in law faculties. Several scholars learned the legal procedure and the “national” laws on their own – reading legal handbooks, practice treatises or dictionaries. In the eighteenth century the establishment of Chairs in royal laws was taught in some important centers for legal studies like Valladolid, Salamanca and Alcala´. In 1771 Igna- cio Jorda´n de Asso and Miguel de Manuel Rodriguez published the first edition of their work Instituciones del Derecho civil de Castilla, a well-known handbook that also contained the Aragonese civil law. The reforms in the curriculum had a royalist purpose at the expense of Roman law and the papal power. At the same time, the renewal was necessary because the contents of the courses in universities were not suitable for the practice of justice before the various courts. Although some regulatory provisions tried to effect the transformation of legal studies since 1713, the establishment of native law teaching occurred under the reign of Charles III, a considerable delay. The purpose of this paper is the analysis of the transformations of legal education in Spain during the second half of that century.

Students from Transylvania at the University of Padua, XVII-XIX Centuries, with a Special Look at the Course of Studies and Legal Education

Studenti della Transilvania all’Università di Padova nei secoli XVII-XIX, con particolare riferimento all’iter studiorum e agli insegnamenti impartiti in ambito giuridico

Author(s): Elena Munarini,Giuseppe Munarini / Language(s): Italian / Issue: LV/Sup/2016

Keywords: University of Padova; Latinism; Dacia; Transylvania; historical origins; Legal science

The University of Padua, in time, especially in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, has attracted the interest of students from across Europe in many fields of knowledge, especially in Legal sciences. In this way, the University became the meeting point of two cultures that discovered themselves as seemingly different, but, in fact, united by their Latin origins. This is just one of the reasons that led the students from Transylvania to approach higher education in a city, Padua, extremely rich in history and art, in search of the ideal of knowledge continuity over time. This cultural dialogue will prove extremely fruitful, whether it implied graduation from the University of Padua, or just a part of iter studiorum. During the analyzed periods, despite the succession of different programs and systems, creations of the times they were introduced in, the cosmopolitan (we would say today) nature characterizing the spirit of the said University, who offered in return the fruit of the continuity of traditions, languages and cultures, was already emerging.

Et quasi proprium et sanctissimum templum iustitiae consecrare

Et quasi proprium et sanctissimum templum iustitiae consecrare

Author(s): Szilvia Nemes / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: Justinian emperor; Justinian reform; codification; Digesta; temple of justice

In the sixth century, the legislation of Emperor Justinian was probably made with the utmost care and concern. The Christian ruler regarded himself as the restorer of the classical Roman tradition and also a great reformer. This was mainly pointed out in his decrees. In the introductory decrees of his codification emphasized that there is a dual imperial objective, namely the re-emergence of the imperium Romanum and the codification of classical law, both goals viewed as service to God. In the centre of the Christian codification of Justinian, the Digest stands for a particular reason the emperor gave it, raising up the own and most holy temple to justice for his subjects. The introductory decrees use metaphors in order to convince the reader of his sacred goals and to ensure his subjects that his legislation will be the protector of the State and the development of the legal institutions under the cloak of the restauration of ancient Roman tradition.

Iranica nella Disputatio de Christo in Persia

Iranica nella Disputatio de Christo in Persia

Author(s): Antonio Panaino / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 24/2017

Keywords: Narratio de rebus Persicis; De Gestis in Perside; Disputatio de Christo in Persia; anti-Mazdakite polemics; Aphroditianus; Kawād I; Xusraw I; Persia

This article insists on the importance of a very complex and intriguing Byzantine Greek text, usually deno­mina­ted Narratio de rebus Persicis, De Gestis in Perside, or Dispu­ta­tio de Chri­sto in Persia, which contains a large amount of extremely interesting material enabling a better comprehension of the image of Iran in Western Late An­ti­qui­ty from the point of view of the contemporary Christian perception. Among the main aims of this book, full of compo­si­tional strata of different origins and times (e.g. the very important and ar­chaic prophesy of Jesus’ birth through the voice of a star appeared to Cyrus the Great in a temple), one was certainly to criticise the ex­tre­mely polemical att­i­tude of opposing Chris­tian Churches and communities in the East, particularly in the milieu of the Sasanian Empire. In fact, the great framework of the present work is occasionally offered by a theological debate, lasting for days, which should have been taken at the court of a fictitious Persian king, named Ἀρρινάτος. This study offers new arguments sup­porting the presence in such a frequently forgotten Greek source of some clear re­fe­ren­­ces to the kingdoms of Kawād I and Xusraw I, with particular reference to an­ti-Mazdakite polemics. Fur­thermore, the fi­nal part of the article proposes an Iranological evaluation of the resonance produced by the na­me of the Persian pro­ta­go­nist of the whole book, the wise Aphro­di­tianus (Ἀφροδιτια­νός).

Registered auxiliaries of cohors III Alpinorum equitata in Humac

Evidentirani augzilijari cohors III Alpinorum equitata na Humcu

Author(s): Almir Marić / Language(s): Bosnian,English / Issue: 54/2017

Keywords: cohors III Alpinorum equitata; Humac; auxiliaries; epigraphic monuments; Alps;

This paper analyses epigraphic monuments on which there is mention of soldiers and non-commissioned officers on active service and veterans of cohors III Alpinorum equitata stationed in the camp at Gračine (Humac) in the 1st century. To date seven such monuments have been discovered, with mention of six soldiers, two non-commissioned officers and one veteran of this auxiliary cohort. The highest ranking auxiliaries known from funerary inscriptions of this cohort from the Trebižat valley were signifer Valerius and optio Lucius, who were second in the chain of command of a century, immediately below the centurion himself. They are styled heir (heres) on the monuments, i.e. persons who, in cases where a deceased soldier had no family, were responsible for his burial. Prosopographic and onomastic analysis of the funerary inscriptions led to the conclusion that most of the soldiers were of Celtic origin, and thus of the first generation of auxiliaries recruited into this cohort from the western Alpine regions (Tres Alpes). From the latter half of the 1st century new recruits came from the local areas where the cohort was stationed, in which regard the wider lower Herzegovina region was probably no exception. The third Alpine cohort left at the end of the 1st century, when members of cohors I Belgarum equitata most likely replaced it as the permanent garrison in Humac.

EAST AND WEST - TWO MODELS OF TEACHING THE ROMAN LAW

ИЗТОКЪТ И ЗАПАДЪТ – ДВА МОДЕЛА НА ПРЕПОДАВАНЕ НА РИМСКОТО ПРАВО

Author(s): Alfonso Agudo Ruiz / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Law; jurists; East - west; Justiniano-study plan;

The present investigation tries to give a general view of the teaching in Roman law during fourteen centuries of history, without forgetting the political, social and economic sides, which will determine the creation and evolution of the Law and consequently its teaching. This long process will be determined by the different political views of the teaching of Law, which the eastern and western imperial power has in order to satisfy the needs of its civil and judicial imperial administration.

The influence of the crisis in the Universal Church on the Polish society in the 1st half of the 15th century. Chosen issues

Wpływ kryzysu Kościoła powszechnego na społeczeństwo polskie w pierwszej połowie XV wieku. Wybrane zagadnienia

Author(s): Tomasz Graff / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 44/2012

Keywords: Council of Basel; Council of Constance; Schism of Basel;

The author, on the basis of chosen examples, discusses the influence of the crisis in the Universal Church in the 15th century on the conduct of the inhabitants of the Polish Kingdom. A particular emphasis was put on the analysis of the period of so called the Schism of Basel between 1439 and 1449, nevertheless, the period of Pisa and Constance Councils have not been omitted. The author does not only focus on the conduct and attitudes of secular and church elites but also tries to investigate how the religious condition in the Universal Church affected common subjects of Polish monarchs. The author uses examples from the life of townspeople and various monastic communities or religious orders. He extensively elaborates on pardons granted by councils, popes, cardinals and bishops. The author also emphasises the difficulties in interpreting some source documents. The documents dating from the time of the Council of Basel have been subjected to closest scrutiny. The issue so far has not been extensively discussed in subject literature, which motivated the author to try and get some insight into the problem. This is why in effect, only the most interesting aspects for the author have been reflected in the work. Undoubtedly they require further analysis and research especially including manuscript sources.

Dutch Theological Trends and Their Transylvanian Followers

Holland irányzatok és erdélyi követőik

Author(s): Vilmos József Kolumbán / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Dutch theology;Dutch theology and Transylvania; Arminianism;Leiden; Johannes Koch

The Arminianist doctrine concerning predestination as well as Cocceius’ theology of the covenant, which intended to dilute the inflexibility of the Dordrecht decisions, kept the Dutch theology of the seventeenth century in fever, causing serious problems even during the first half of the eighteenth. The Hungarian adepts of these doctrines were Sámuel Nádudvari, József Makfalvi, András Huszti, György Verestói and Ferenc Csepregi Turkovics, who, after their return home, began to disseminate the teaching, which differed from the confessions of the Transylvanian Reformed Church. The lawsuit and legal process concerning doctrinal errors,however, was initiated and carried out only in the case of Huszti, Nádudvari and Makfalvi. The comparison between these lawsuits reveals numerous similarities both regarding procedural matters and the nature of the heterodoxy, which was provable beyond doubt in each instance.The heads of the charge were almost identical (Pelagianism, Arminianism etc.). Despite the certainty of their heterodoxy, one ought not forget that in all three cases some personal tragedies and human incompatibilities were lurking in the background. Whilst Csepregi and Verestói could easily clear their names of any suspicion of heterodoxy, the other three theologians (Huszti, Nádudvari and Makfalvi) did not take this opportunity, which ultimately caused an irreparable break in their careers.

Humanist Demography

Humanist Demography

Author(s): Martin Korenjak / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: applied mathematics; history of demography; world population; sources; early modern state; humanism; Jesuits; Latin; translation;

The origins of demography as a scientific discipline are usually seen as intimately connected to the organisational and economic needs of the early modern state. This paper, by contrast, presents an early demographic enterprise that falls outside this framework. The calculations performed by the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Battista Riccioli in an appendix to his Geographia et hydrographia reformata (“Geography and hydrography brought up to date,” 1661) are the first systematic attempt presently known to arrive at an estimate of the entire world population. Yet they appear to have no political purpose and rather belong to a learned, bookish tradition of demographical thinking that may be termed “humanist”. The article starts from a summary of Riccioli’s life, of the book wherein his demographic exercise is contained and of this exercise itself. Thereafter, Riccioli’s motives, sources, methodology and results are discussed. By way of conclusion, some preliminary reflections on the place of Riccioli and the humanist tradition in the early modern history of demography as a whole are offered. Two appendices present a translation of the Coniectura and tabulate its literary sources in order to provide some possible starting points for a study of the aforementioned tradition.

The Trnava Dilemmas and Daniel Krman

„Trnavské dilemy“ a Daniel Krman

Author(s): Svorad Zavarský / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 02/2018

Keywords: Slovakia; confessional polemics; Martinus Szent-Ivany (1633-1705); Daniel Krman; Jr. (1663-1740); Quindecim dilemmata (1699); Constantia in orthodoxo consensu (1702);

This article identifies and explores one important phenomenon of the intellectual history of Slovakia in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This phenomenon, referred to by Daniel Krman the younger as Dilemmata Tyrnaviensia (the Trnava dilemmas), is here discussed against the broader backdrop of its sources and influence. The article is a contribution towards a better understaning of the impact of religious controversies on the intellectual, societal and political development of Slovakia around 1700.

The Mythical as a Philosophical Method in Vergil’s Aeneid

Mitsko kao filozofska metoda u Vergilijevoj Eneidi

Author(s): Filip Krajina,Zdravko Perić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Cicero; Aeneid; ethics; myth; ontology; Vergil;

In this paper we discuss potential interpretations of Vergil’s Aeneid from a philosophical perspective, which includes the Homeric, Stoical and Epicurean element, because the comparison of Homer’s epics and Vergil’s Aeneid in the figuration of a literary textand philosophicity shows congruence. Platonic influence on Vergil, through Cicero andhis eclectic philosophical approach, lies in the teaching of virtue. It is therefore essentia lto separate the ideas of the aforementioned philosophical systems in Vergil’s epic and explain his mode of exposition by the mythical philosophical method. The plot and the causal and consequential links in the epic are controlled by God’s Fate which is Stoically understood, meaning that the whole narrative structure is subordinated to the founding of Rome as an empire which God had intended to rule justly and well. Along with the ethical component, there is a relation with the ontological, because the philosophy of the Epicureans and the Stoics is characterized by the division of philosophy into ethics,logic and philosophy of nature. Aeneas’ model of characterization was not created according to the Stoic wise man ideal nor to the Epicurean, but the main role is that of a Homeric hero, as Aeneas still expresses emotions of anger and fury, as do most of the ancient heroes like Achilles and Odysseus, who, guided by emotional pain and grief owing to losing loved ones, became vengefully violent. The reason of such narrative motifis the idealization of emotional men in the Hellenistic period, as well as in the Roman period. Therefore, what was crucial in shaping the main character and his relationship towards the divine is the Roman culture and its ethical-ontological demands, which are manifested in religious form. The originator of the mythical philosophical method structured in epic poetry is Homer, whose latter influence establishes the principle for the formation of the epic. It is about the method of bringing out ideologized ethics,which is why it is cultural, and is formed by aestheticizing the mythological.

Teaching Philosophy in Vojvodina High Schools in the Interwar Period

Nastava filozofije u vojvođanskim gimnazijama u međuratnom periodu

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 23/2015

Keywords: Philosophy; teaching philosophy; philosophy in hight schools; interwar period; Vojvodina high schools;

Naša filozofska kultura dugo je trajala u znaku nedostatka brojnih neophodnih elemenata. Nedostajala su sistematska istraživanja nacionalne filozofske baštine. Malo je knjiga, studija, ogleda, prevoda i bibliografija koji bi u svom misaonom i istraživačkom središtu imale problematiku filozofske propedeutike, metodike i didaktike filozofije, kao i same istorije filozofije. Objašnjenje za takvo stanje delom se može naći u odsustvu volje među filozofskim delatnicima za „podelom rada”. Ona je iznova ohrabrivana uveravanjima da ti elementi filozofske kulture spadaju u rubna područja filozofske „infrastrukture”. [...]

The Interdependence between Literary Form and Philosophical Thinking in Seneca’s Prose

Interdependenţa dintre forma literară şi gândirea filosofică în proza lui Seneca

Author(s): Mihai Valentin Vladimirescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2019

Keywords: Seneca;literary style;philosophy

Which were the cultural tensions that exacerbated the spiritual needs Seneca will consider in his writings? What literary techniques impregnate a special force on his spiritual treatment? Style is essential for Seneca, representing his best weapon. The post-classical expression style was an indicator of the new attitudes generated by the altered social and political circumstances of the early empire. The transfer of words from their own semantic field to the one of philosophy is characteristic for most of Seneca’s philosophical writings, sensibly conveyed through philosophical concepts and common language and loosely establishing meditative patterns. The recognition of the connection between figurative language and diatribe tradition should not prevent us from noticing the deeply different effect it has on Seneca’s philosophical style. In the Julius-Claudian literary culture, Seneca was a genuine innovator, applying figurative rhetoric to literary scenarios, both in prose and in verse and emphasizing the ethical issues of style.

Discussion on Faith as a means of communication

A hitvita mint kommunikációs eszköz

Author(s): Attila Koncz / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2019