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Seneca on Surpassing God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

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Abstract:

Seneca twice argues that the wise person (sapiens) outstrips or surpasses (antecedat) God. On its face, this claim seems both starkly impossible and rankly impious, the kind of thought antithetical to Stoic wisdom. However, a case may be made that the thought is a natural outgrowth of Stoicism's value theory and is part of the broader Stoic aspirational ethical program.

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SenecaStoicismpietyStoic paradoxes
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Spring 2017 , pp. 22 - 31
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Copyright © American Philosophical Association 2017 

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