The fragmentation of life, i.e. the inability to live one's life as a whole, is an important theme in Hellenistic ethics, as witnessed in Lucretius and Seneca. From Aristotle onwards, the task of ethics is to construct a unitary life, in which the continuity of the 'good life' is identified with the stable presence of virtue (Stoicism) or pleasure (Epicureanism). This basic problem is related to well-known topics such as the uselessness of travel or chaotic reading: a particularly important theme is the imaginary observation of one's own corpse.
Milanese, G. F., Frantumare la vita. (Lucrezio, Seneca, l’etica delle virtù), in Centro Studi “la Permanenza Del Classico, C. S. “. P. D. C. (ed.), LUCREZIO, SENECA E NOI. Studi per Ivano Dionigi, Pàtron Editore, Bologna 2021: <<CENTRO STUDI LA PERMANENZA DEL CLASSICO - RICERCHE>>, 45 139- 146 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/192967]
Frantumare la vita. (Lucrezio, Seneca, l’etica delle virtù)
Milanese, Guido FabrizioPrimo
2021
Abstract
The fragmentation of life, i.e. the inability to live one's life as a whole, is an important theme in Hellenistic ethics, as witnessed in Lucretius and Seneca. From Aristotle onwards, the task of ethics is to construct a unitary life, in which the continuity of the 'good life' is identified with the stable presence of virtue (Stoicism) or pleasure (Epicureanism). This basic problem is related to well-known topics such as the uselessness of travel or chaotic reading: a particularly important theme is the imaginary observation of one's own corpse.
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