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Exit from stultitia: Seneca’s pedagogical-therapeutic strategy
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In his analysis of Seneca?s notion of stultitia, Michel Foucault suggests
that we will not fully understand Seneca?s pedagogical-therapeutic strategy
if we exclusively follow the traditional and literal translation of the term
as ?nonsense?, ?folly?, or ?ignorance?. According to his description, the
figure of the stultus is best understood as a ?raw material?, devoid of an
appropriate relation to itself, but more or less suitable for formation,
provided that, like Seneca?s literary addressees, he wills to emerge from
the raw state of the stultitia by appealing for help to the figure of an
?pedagogue?, ?teacher?, or ?therapist? (that is, to Seneca himself).
However, in keeping with the Stoic tradition, Seneca dares not to think of
himself as a wise man, but rather as an experienced and progressive stultus
who, without continual struggle with himself, always threatens to fall from
a ?cooked? to a ?raw? state of stultitia.
Title: Exit from stultitia: Seneca’s pedagogical-therapeutic strategy
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In his analysis of Seneca?s notion of stultitia, Michel Foucault suggests
that we will not fully understand Seneca?s pedagogical-therapeutic strategy
if we exclusively follow the traditional and literal translation of the term
as ?nonsense?, ?folly?, or ?ignorance?.
According to his description, the
figure of the stultus is best understood as a ?raw material?, devoid of an
appropriate relation to itself, but more or less suitable for formation,
provided that, like Seneca?s literary addressees, he wills to emerge from
the raw state of the stultitia by appealing for help to the figure of an
?pedagogue?, ?teacher?, or ?therapist? (that is, to Seneca himself).
However, in keeping with the Stoic tradition, Seneca dares not to think of
himself as a wise man, but rather as an experienced and progressive stultus
who, without continual struggle with himself, always threatens to fall from
a ?cooked? to a ?raw? state of stultitia.
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