Ethics and Self-Cultivation by Matthew Dennis Sander Werkhoven

Author:Matthew Dennis,Sander Werkhoven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

This kind of knowledge aims to deeply assimilate ethical truths, which might be relatively easily taught and comprehended on the solely theoretical level. Nevertheless, as Seneca chides himself: ‘The mind often tries not to notice even that which lies before our eyes; we must therefore force upon it the knowledge of things that are perfectly well known’ (Ep. 94.25). Perhaps in part rhetorically, to encourage Lucilius, Seneca confides to his pupil that:

I still exhort myself to do that which I recommend; but my exhortations are not yet followed. And even if this were the case, I should not have these principles so ready for practice, or so well trained, that they would rush to my assistance in every crisis.

(Ep. 71.30)

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